If you've been scammed and you'd rather not involve the police, just make up your own letterhead, fax it to ebay, get the culprits name and address and extract your own brand of justice.
"I also have heard they take something like 10% of the transaction"
No. Paypal takes either 2.2 or 2.9% (depending on your sales volume) + 30 cents. Clearly too much for micropayments, but still cheaper than most merchant accounts, or other online processors like ccnow and kagi
"Why the hell would anyone take an infringement law suit seriously from these patents?"
Because until these patents are deemed invalid (which they certainly seem to be though IANAL), they are enforcable. I'm afraid that in most, if not all, legal systems the Jeff Spicoli defense of "Your honor, that patent is totally bogus" won't quite cut it.
Consider yourself out of the "not global warming" camp. I certainly wasn't trying to pigeonhole anyone. I was merely suprised that there weren't more (any?) handwavers pointing to this questionable article as "proof" of global warming.
Three contractors were touring the White House on the same day. One was from New York, another from Missouri, and the third from Florida. At the end of the tour, the guard asked them what they did for a living. When they each replied that they were contractors the guard said "Hey, we need one of the rear fences redone. Why don't you guys take a look at it and give me a bid."
So to the back fence they went. First up was the Florida contractor. He took out his tape measure and pencil, did some measuring and said, "Well I figure the job will run about $900. $400 for materials, $400 for my crew, and $100 profit for me."
Next was the Missouri contractor. He also took out his tape measure and pencil, did some quick figuring and said, "Looks like I can do this job for $700. $300 for materials, $300 for my crew, and $100 profit for me."
Then the guard asks the New York contractor how much. Without so much as moving the contractor says, $2700."
The guard, incredulous, looks at him and says "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?" "Easy" says the contractor from New York, "$1,000 for me, $1,000 for you and we hire the guy from Missouri."
I must say I'm a bit surprised that most of the comments here seem to be in the "not global warming" camp. Must be that the doom-n-gloomers are still asleep?
Happened to me about a year ago (90 Talon). Smells like dead fish when they go. The ECU freaked out and the car died. Luckily, after about a minute of trying, I managed to get the car restarted and limped a mile back home.
It's a pretty simple fix though. Pull the ECU, remove the dead caps, clean board really well, $2 worth of good quality caps from Digikey and back in business.
You can find detailed instructions on how to fix it here
Actually, the bathroom was removed at the insistence of Turner Broadcasting. This was done to prevent you from violating your TV contract by not watching the commercials. After all, you wouldn't want to be "stealing" programming while living in the Home of Tomorrow.
How about coming up with a DNS Moderation system. The root servers give say 50 karma points to each IP address issuing a query. If the query is unnecessary, it gets modded "-1 redundant". When karma hits 0, it stops responding to further queries. DNS eventually stops working at that site, admin pulls head out of ass and fixes the problem causing the redundant DNS queries.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh there's movement alright. Generally just one hand though ;-)
These aren't the droids you're looking for.
A young John Connor figured out how to crack PINs way back in 1991. How is this "News" for Nerds?
"never listen to your parents.. what the fsck do they know"
Score: -1, Redundant
How about: "Hey self, stop smoking so much dope. Your memory will be shot by the time you're 18"
If you've been scammed and you'd rather not involve the police, just make up your own letterhead, fax it to ebay, get the culprits name and address and extract your own brand of justice.
"I also have heard they take something like 10% of the transaction"
No. Paypal takes either 2.2 or 2.9% (depending on your sales volume) + 30 cents.
Clearly too much for micropayments, but still cheaper than most merchant accounts, or other online processors like ccnow and kagi
I'm changing my name to:
jr.smith.michael.robert.mr.nyc.usa.e164.arpa
I wonder how many people have that name.
"Why the hell would anyone take an infringement law suit seriously from these patents?"
Because until these patents are deemed invalid (which they certainly seem to be though IANAL), they are enforcable.
I'm afraid that in most, if not all, legal systems the Jeff Spicoli defense of "Your honor, that patent is totally bogus" won't quite cut it.
Consider yourself out of the "not global warming" camp. I certainly wasn't trying to pigeonhole anyone. I was merely suprised that there weren't more (any?) handwavers pointing to this questionable article as "proof" of global warming.
Three contractors were touring the White House on the same day. One was from New York, another from Missouri, and the third from Florida. At the end of the tour, the guard asked them what they did for a living. When they each replied that they were contractors the guard said "Hey, we need one of the rear fences redone. Why don't you guys take a look at it and give me a bid."
So to the back fence they went. First up was the Florida contractor. He took out his tape measure and pencil, did some measuring and said, "Well I figure the job will run about $900. $400 for materials, $400 for my crew, and $100 profit for me."
Next was the Missouri contractor. He also took out his tape measure and pencil, did some quick figuring and said, "Looks like I can do this job for $700. $300 for materials, $300 for my crew, and $100 profit for me."
Then the guard asks the New York contractor how much. Without so much as moving the contractor says, $2700."
The guard, incredulous, looks at him and says "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"
"Easy" says the contractor from New York, "$1,000 for me, $1,000 for you and we hire the guy from Missouri."
Agreed.
I must say I'm a bit surprised that most of the comments here seem to be in the "not global warming" camp. Must be that the doom-n-gloomers are still asleep?
"oh golly. ignorance is bliss...give me the red pill"
Not to nitpick, but don't you mean, "Give me the BLUE pill"
More curiously, why did I just yawn when I read about you yawning?
It's a pretty simple fix though. Pull the ECU, remove the dead caps, clean board really well, $2 worth of good quality caps from Digikey and back in business. You can find detailed instructions on how to fix it here
Actually, the bathroom was removed at the insistence of Turner Broadcasting.
This was done to prevent you from violating your TV contract by not watching the commercials.
After all, you wouldn't want to be "stealing" programming while living in the Home of Tomorrow.
I get first DIBS
Some minor improvements:
Employee productivity skyrockets as Slashdot unavailable to them (at least those who don't have the IP memorized)
???
Profit
How about coming up with a DNS Moderation system.
The root servers give say 50 karma points to each IP address issuing a query.
If the query is unnecessary, it gets modded "-1 redundant".
When karma hits 0, it stops responding to further queries.
DNS eventually stops working at that site, admin pulls head out of ass and fixes the problem causing the redundant DNS queries.
u ph1r3 s+4rt3r
Bah. The server probably has one of them there new-fangled "serial-ATA" drives the kids have been hollerin' about.
Screw VLB. Bring back Qbus!!!
Soekris Engineering net4511 board - $200.
Garmin GPS-35-HVS - $180,
Basic Stamp 1 module and carrier board - $34 and $15
Kantronics KPC-3+ TNC - $180
Yaesu VX-1R handheld transceiver - $130
3Com HomeConnect webcam - $70
Aiptek Pencam Trio VGA camera - $49
Kaymont 1500 gram sounding balloon - $60
Getting on the front page of Slashdot - Priceless
Damn, I wish could be unemployed AND have an extra $918 to blow "just for fun"
"... honestly, who remembers to put the little wing after the V?"
You don't need the wing if you write it backwards.
Since the OP said his autistic child couldn't speak, perhaps some type of voice recognition system would work here.