We sincerely apologize for the error in your recent pre-order of the
VisionTek Xtasy GeForce4 Graphics Accelerator. Because we value you as a
BestBuy.com customer, we would like to offer you a $30 digital coupon to use
on your next online purchase.
Pressure from the taxpayer, and from competition between departments for limited funds.
The government can't just print money (!), how much fuss has there been in the US press recently abut raising taxes and reducing the scope and size of tax cuts.
Each department has it's own needs - if you spend an extra billion on defense, then you take it away from health, etc. etc. etc.
How is this different from a couple's child being gestated in a surrogate mother's womb?
How is this different from a different organ - the kidney - being replaced with external machinery (dialysis)?
How is this different from the prosthetic limbs or the artifical hearts in development?
Our bodies are imperfect and sometimes bits don't work properly or break. We have the means to workaround these shortcomings with technology; in this case, we still need parents to provide the genetic material and, obviously, raise the child once it is born.
'consideration' means that both parties have to give something to the other party for the contract to be valid.
So a 'contract' which says the I will give you a car isn't a valid contract, and can't be enforced by you should I decide not to give you the car after all. But a contract which says I will sell you a car for $X is valid (assuming everything else is valid).
Whether X is adequate consideration depends on local laws and the courts. E.g. $5 for a new ferrari may be enough to make the contract valid, it may not.
Whether any of this applies to the clickthrough thing above, I don't know.
Borders and Yahoo just said they didn't sell the address.
The spammer said he used "an e-mail harvesting program called Target 2001... [which]... scans Web sites and databases for addresses."
So it is possible that neither Borders or Yahoo are lying... but that there is a security/privacy flaw in one or both of the sites which lets the address be harvested.
Possibly not, the patent says
What is claimed is:
1. A method for intentionally making an optically readable media unreadable by a play process, comprising steps of:
providing the media with an optically activated mechanism that causes a defocusing of a readout beam, thereby degrading reflection of the readout beam from a surface wherein information is encoded;
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Dear Best Buy Customer,
We sincerely apologize for the error in your recent pre-order of the
VisionTek Xtasy GeForce4 Graphics Accelerator. Because we value you as a
BestBuy.com customer, we would like to offer you a $30 digital coupon to use
on your next online purchase.
Pressure from the taxpayer, and from competition between departments for limited funds.
The government can't just print money (!), how much fuss has there been in the US press recently abut raising taxes and reducing the scope and size of tax cuts.
Each department has it's own needs - if you spend an extra billion on defense, then you take it away from health, etc. etc. etc.
Dr Hung-Ching Liu's homepage
Cornell's department is called The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility
Centre is the British spelling of Center (in this context). The switch from health to medicine could be a typo.
How is this different from a couple's child being gestated in a surrogate mother's womb?
How is this different from a different organ - the kidney - being replaced with external machinery (dialysis)?
How is this different from the prosthetic limbs or the artifical hearts in development?
Our bodies are imperfect and sometimes bits don't work properly or break. We have the means to workaround these shortcomings with technology; in this case, we still need parents to provide the genetic material and, obviously, raise the child once it is born.
Cracked Already!!! (Score:1)
... 2 methods, one of which uses the light. Therefore your stupid claim about cracking the system using a vacuum won't work.
by SkewlD00d on 10:21 PM February 7th, 2002
Just play them in a vacuum!
Yeah
Think before posting?
In my experience, they do provide a noticable drop in background noise on a plane. But I didn't find it enough.
Quiet-ish noise is better than loud noise - but don't spend $80 (I think that's what I spent) expecting silence.
The thing only has 1Gb storage. So 200 would be a better test than 3000.
Ie. 1 order of magnitude higher than they tried instead of 2.
From the article ...
Test 2 - Walking outside with occasional traffic passing by. All track names said in proper order. - Result: very good to excellent
Does the voice recognition filter itself out? When U2 sings "one" I don't necessarily want it switching to Aimee Mann's "one" and vice versa.
The problem is not so much backing up your good data, but restoring it when your system is hosed.
If your filesystem is badly corrupted - is it possible to restore the last backup?
The poster is asking for rollbacks, or restoration, at the file system level.
Windows System Restore does not do this - it assumes the system is still bootable in "safe mode".
Yet I live in Oregon, have a car, and a chimney but haven't received a single call about chimney sweeping.
She was sacked last October.
Now she's blaming it all on the managment that kicked her out.
Is she bitter? Or is she correct?
'consideration' means that both parties have to give something to the other party for the contract to be valid.
So a 'contract' which says the I will give you a car isn't a valid contract, and can't be enforced by you should I decide not to give you the car after all. But a contract which says I will sell you a car for $X is valid (assuming everything else is valid).
Whether X is adequate consideration depends on local laws and the courts. E.g. $5 for a new ferrari may be enough to make the contract valid, it may not.
Whether any of this applies to the clickthrough thing above, I don't know.
The non techie :
... instead of just leading questions so the interviewee can press his agenda.
What about this huge contraption with all the vacuum tubes?
The realist
Is it possible the general public doesn't care about these machines?
The pitiful
Isn't there something rather sad about collections of old computers?
It's nice to see some humanity in articles
Borders and Yahoo just said they didn't sell the address.
... [which] ... scans Web sites and databases for addresses ."
... but that there is a security/privacy flaw in one or both of the sites which lets the address be harvested.
The spammer said he used "an e-mail harvesting program called Target 2001
So it is possible that neither Borders or Yahoo are lying
NEVER look into an e-mail that even looks like spam
Absolutely, these HTML mails are dangerous with their 1x1 gifs with a custom URL so "they" know you've read the message.
I check the source and add the urls to junkbuster's list. If the filters don't get the mail, then the images still don't get requested.
junkbuster blocked 15 images from loading in that one article.
cybercide?
denatured means it has had poison added, not necessarily that it is low water content.
The screen will have been ruined though; liquid crystals are very temperature sensitive.
with the year in the heading
Change your date format here.
Possibly not, the patent says
What is claimed is:
1. A method for intentionally making an optically readable media unreadable by a play process, comprising steps of:
providing the media with an optically activated mechanism that causes a defocusing of a readout beam, thereby degrading reflection of the readout beam from a surface wherein information is encoded;
Yes, you're right : Self-Destructing DVDs: Son of DIVX just over 2 years ago
The next thing you know, they'll be trying to sell us eat-once popcorn to go with our play-once dvd