in Visual Basic, too, like most trojans seem to be. It's a very easy thing to make... that's not even counting that there is an abundance of source code for trojans and smtp examples. After all, it's 15 year olds that use trojans, 16 year olds that make them, and 22 year olds that make viruses.
Then funny thing is, after every mass-media-hyped outbreak, people are always surprised when computer experts say in an interview how making a basic trojan or.VBS script is easy. (After all, trojans just open up a winsock connection and scripts can be based on previous scripts, either.) They think it's something hard when it's something lame.
Okay I will have to end this rant without getting to the point, due to an incident. As I paused to help someone, they saw the "it's 15 year olds that use trojans," line and probably misunderstood as they were leaving. Geez..... Fine, I'll finish the point: If you are unemployed, get cracking on trojans! Windows trojans! Employers will love to see that you are smart enough to make one. JUST KIDDING! Although, probably true.....
Your company owns everything you do on company time. Even if it was a personal project on company time, they own it. So the information you are distributing is illegal, pirated, in violation of a trade-secret, etc. In your case, it wasn't even a personal project.
I'm not even talking about any job contract you might have signed when offered the job... I think it's standard law that one's employer owns whatever you do/make/invent/create during the hours you being paid to do stuff for him/her.
As a fat person as you label yourself, YOU DON'T KNOW better about fitness than the other guy, or even anybody else.
People were never this fat yadayda read my previous post please. I hope it motivates you (if) you choose the path of fitness. (You don't have to it's everybody's personal choice.)
Genetics is the stupidest excuse ever. People 40 years ago were NEVER THIS FUCKING FAT. Kids in school were NEVER THIS FUCKING FAT 40 years ago.
DNA DID NOT CHANGE OVERNIGHT AS YOU SUGGEST. The -only- DNA explanation is if the same obese person was a parent of every baby born in America 40 years ago, and passed the 'fat' genes on... OBVIOUSLY THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN.
The fact that Chinese people are expected to be (and probably are) hard-working, lean people is WHY they are so. It's part of what being chinese is.
To be a huge waterballoon in America is normal by now because that is American culture. It feels okay in a way that no Chinese person would feel okay for themselves to get that big.
Plus, chinese families have big kids, too. Which shows it is the American diet that made them so, not genes. And the other fat kids are non-chinese but also on America's 'eat shit' plan.
THE ONLY WAY TO PUT ON FAT is to eat more calories than you burn. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.
I'm sure every person who NEVER EXERCISED IN THEIR LIFE because they are afraid to BREAK A SWEAT wants to blame genetics.
But the people who HAVE EXERCISED and are not afraid to BREAK A SWEAT during their life are fitter now and know it's for the CHOICES they made. FITNESS IS A CHOICE. I don't care if you think your body TYPE can't ever be a MARATHON RUNNER.
The people with body types which you DO think can become professional runners ARE NOT GOING TO BE PROFESSIONAL RUNNERS. FITNESS IS NOT ABOUT DOING A MARATHON. IT'S ABOUT BEING ACTIVE and in shape as defined by European, not american, standards.
-MOST PEOPLE WILL NEVER GET TO THE EXTREME STAGE OF FITNESS WHERE THEY ARE THE TOP %.0001 IN A SPORT and can't compete with the TOP %.000001 because of their body type limitations. IT JUST NOT GONNA HAPPEN FOR YOU OR FOR ALMOST ANYBODY to get to that stage. Your BODY TYPE is NO type there is no LABEL for a body. WE ARE ALL BUILT THE SAME, AND BREAKING A SWEAT --OFTEN-- will make you lose weight.
TO LOSE WEIGHT, you will need to work hard. But at any points you want to PAUSE, you can WORK LESS HARDER just to MAINTAIN your new weight. MAINTAINING a new weight is easier than LOSING THE WEIGHT to get there as long as maintainance running or exercise is done regularly.
SO don't think you will have to work hard for the rest of your life, just hard to get the pounds off and then you can just run a couple of times a week.
2) Sue for "Denial of Service Attack" (since the intent of spam is to fill up your mailbox, causing you to give up real e-mails.)
3) Sue for "Espionage" if you both received a 'viagra' spamvertisement and the e-mail says it's not commercial spam, because if it's non-commercial, they were watching you through a window and wanted to notify you of viagra!
4) Is the spam for an ergonomic peripheral, like mouse or keyboard or computer chair? Or maybe, the company offers you pills to decrease your hormonones? In either case, this means they think you might have repetitive stress syndrome from using your... tool. This is either "Espionage" (they saw it), or"Intent of Deliberate Harm" (they e-mail you so much shit, they KNOW you are guaranteed to have RSS in your wrists....
if with the speed of getting NEW products out for sale, simple user accessibility things are thought about?
For instance, whether or not that cuttingboard can display pages up-side down?? The screen is on the left so many chefs can chop with their right hands with out obscuring the reading. That screen better support something so simple, so that left-handers can use it with the screen on the right. Otherwise, it's like discrimination.
As a left-hander, seeing the screen on the left just doesn't do anything for me. If I was a chef and saw a picture of the cuttingboard upside down so the screen is on the right, then... then it would make sense.
My point here is that the orientation of the object subconciously influences the appeal of such object. I am willing to bet that for each left-hander with the same upbringing and wealth as a right-hander, the right-hander will be a much more compulsive shopper. Even if all objects were designed equally, I hypothesize that if adverts showed mostly right handers using them, left-handers won't feel enough of a connection with many products to buy them. Many lefties draw or use computers because much of everything else is harder to adopt to ( or achieve an appeal for ) since gears and knobs turn the other way around.
So we get some chefs that, if left-handed, probably have to custom order knives to get a descent knife since most models are only right-handed. How ridiculous it would be if that cuttingboard doesn't support left-handers (which it probably doesn't!)
Sad how if it supported left-handers, it would have had it as a (publicized) feature. Sad how things can't just be designed hand-neutral in the first place.
With 30 million left-handers in America, stuff like this is kinda important to consider.
So, somebody who can only write stuff for Windows is less complete than someone who can write stuff, or take others' code and port back and forth, in both Windows and Linux?:) Well, that is true if all the dual platformers are more experienced than the single platform dudes. However, that isn't true. And besides, it depends on the task.
And still, if I needed to hire somebody to transfer Duke3d to Linux, I would still probably go with a 30 year-experience Windows or Dos guy than a 2 year programming experience guy who can program in both Win and Lin.
How cool--saying Lin is much shorter and gets rid of the UX. This makes Lin more equal to Win?:\
The hoopla is that basically, you cannot call yourself an Engineer unless you have been certified in Engineering and licensed to perform Engineering.
A lot of people consider themselves Software Engineers, but since they are unlicensed, many states (Texas) disallow this practice of these people labeling themselves as Engineers.
I think licenses make sense, and a program that would license Software Engineers would kick ass (and actually would need to exist for licenses to be possible.)
I'm actually surprised this is finally on slashdot, since someone always mentions the Texas case whenever a story mentions "Software Engineer(ing)" in it.
At some schools, CS students can be mixed in with various types of Engineering students. Both groups will take similar math classes and physics classes their first two years, but Engineers seem to act holier. It would be kick ass to be able to get a B.S. in CS and then be certified as a Software Engineer.
Maybe this would require having taken a couple of engineering courses, but this would be the best.
Then, we'll be both scientists and engineers!
Instead of asking the question "Are programmer's engineers?", I think we should have the following answered:
Most computer software programming career-oriented students take Computer Science. If a BS in Software Engineering could make you an Engineer (after licensure) instead of a Scientist, would you take that path instead? If American schools split CS into those two majors, how would the focus of each of these differ, and which payscale could be bigger?
I know some schools have Software Engineering, so how do existing SE majors differ from CS?
Al in sci-fi?
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Story plots for sci-fi... All I can think of are CROP CIRCLES!
Yes, there are a lot of interesting plots for sci-fi in Alabama. PLOTS OF LAND, haha!
Whenever you see those words on Slashdot, it implies that Win 2003 Compact Disks or DVDs are going to be stamped at a factory from a set of master disks. Going gold does not mean they sold anything!
Oh well, every post prior to this one doesn't realize this;x
It's currently at 1, and this guy is correct. I believe this is the answer to all boredom and "lack of morale"-related issues, because the world has probably been the same way at your job since day 1, but now you have poor morale? That means it is YOU who have changed, not the environment.
Which is the answer in itself--you have been the same way since day 1. Do some more interesting stuff! In school, you progress year to year automagically with no effort and experience new teachers, classrooms, classmates, life changes, friends, neighbors. After you settle at a job or college, it is then that the true test happens. Instead of riding the age scale to adulthood, you now determine your next move. So take it! You want that girl? Go talk to her and express your feelings. You want to have more fun at the company? Have more fun! Do with your workspace would make it more fun. Consider it your company (since you work there and are a part of it.)
And don't buy/over-consume stuff if it's just to (in your opinion) impress society for no valid reason. Do WHAT YOU WANT with the money, and that will also improve morale for every dollar you earn. I know you're supposed to buy those $900 italian shoes and pretty bmw, but you know yourself that you maybe would rather save the money to buy a horse on a farm or something, then do it!
Your job IS your life. No, it doesn't mean your work should be all-encompassing of your life; and no, it doesn't mean your job has to define you or how intelligent you are. But it IS your life and livelyhood so don't make the life stop at 9 and start at 5!
So the best thing you can do to raise morale is to make people read the above. As I'm writing this, it's good information for myself and I hope others will too find it insightful.
Slashdot, OR: Slashdot.org today reports that the state of Missouri has figured out a new way to raise revenue while defending its citizen's rights.
Missouri's plan revolves around suing the spammers who trash resources of businesses with fax machines by sending commercial faxes, which Fax.com is alleged of doing.
"This business plan of this state leads others above and beyond any other similar proposed measure to restore dot com revenue in the declining economy," a slashdot poster said.
"Not that Missouri is a technologically important state. Heck, I don't even live there", he admitted. "However, I think it is an important lesson for other states to sue spammers as soon as possible to get as much money back as possible."
The reason for urgency is simple -- there is only so much money that an ex.com can be ripped for before it presses the Ch. 7 button on the TV remote, pointing at itself.
It was discovered shortly after the story broke that Fax.com had it's OWN business plan, too. We received the following from an anonymous source:
Unconfirmed reports say that this level of discredibility and the news of losing the appeals decision has FOXNEWS, part FOX Broadcasting Company, worried.
The AP wire reports that FOX.com is considering suing Fax.com also, but for a different reason.
A representative speaking on the condition of anonymity told us over the phone,
"We have always assumed that Fax.com was not a credible organization. Now, the court decision is proof that Fax.com is so untrustworthy or discredited that we fear people will confuse Fax.com with FOXNEWS.com."
A quote from a press release, added shortly to FOX's web site after the story broke, clears up why there could be confusion.
"It's NOT exactly because our domain names are similar that we are so upset. We just feel that this discredibility will have people confusing Fax.com with FOX.COM or FOXNEWS.COM due to the high level of discredibility that we here at the FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY NEWS DEPARTMENT strive to provide. We are seriously considering our own legal action. But it is true that we cannot have a competitor with a similar domain name trying to out do us."
The news of the court challenge means Fax.com will probably have to go bankrupt to debt. According to a Uranus Marketing survey, Fax.com is one of the last remaining of 14 profitable dot.con companies.
Even with the sentimental value, many readers of slashdot regarded this news as unimportant, expressing their sentiments wholeheartedly.
"We can just wait to read this until the second or third time it's posted on slashdot, thank you very much." -- Missouri's win shows that states can do a lot to improve their economy and fight spam, too. However, that's not where the story ends.
In fact, the REAL story here is that this is slashdot's fourth article in a series of content covering Fax.com and its money woes.
Surprisingly, no dupes have been reported and each slashdot report was a new update on the case. - CmdrTaco could not be reached for comment.
I've seen maybe 20 dupe stories in the past six months, three sets within three days once, and a case when a dupe was a story already on front page and a copy of the second article on the front page.
controlling free software? Good, bad? The [probably] biggest Microsoft Windows desktop customer supporting Red Hat... Sounds like a kick in the face for Microsoft.
I hear they've got the "flying to a building within a 1 mile radius" part done. Wouldn't it be not much more difficult to extend the radius to 250 miles? What would be involved?
With no external communication and tracking allowed, these robots will end up... who knows where? Who knows where?
That's right, who knows where! Be ready as the creators will have 5 hours to scout the desert for their robots before the sandstorm hits (or something)!:/
Nah, I'm sure the robots will be allowed to shoot a flare or something! Oh wait:
"...a vehicle that clears a path by setting everything in its way on fire, or a vehicle that digs large holes, are unacceptable.
Hmm..:/
Go ahead and try to find your robot after a sandstorm or something happens, and you have to 1) find it yourself magically 2) dig it up yourself because the robots aren't allowed to.
I hope DARPA go through with this contest, it's the most ingenious waste of taxpayer money ever--it can waste a $1,000,000 OR be the cheapest way to research an awesome design (whoever wins the contest.) I would so watch this on TV.
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in Visual Basic, too, like most trojans seem to be. It's a very easy thing to make... that's not even counting that there is an abundance of source code for trojans and smtp examples. After all, it's 15 year olds that use trojans, 16 year olds that make them, and 22 year olds that make viruses.
.VBS script is easy. (After all, trojans just open up a winsock connection and scripts can be based on previous scripts, either.) They think it's something hard when it's something lame.
.. ..
Then funny thing is, after every mass-media-hyped outbreak, people are always surprised when computer experts say in an interview how making a basic trojan or
Okay I will have to end this rant without getting to the point, due to an incident. As I paused to help someone, they saw the "it's 15 year olds that use trojans," line and probably misunderstood as they were leaving. Geez.
Fine, I'll finish the point: If you are unemployed, get cracking on trojans! Windows trojans! Employers will love to see that you are smart enough to make one. JUST KIDDING! Although, probably true.....
Your company owns everything you do on company time. Even if it was a personal project on company time, they own it. So the information you are distributing is illegal, pirated, in violation of a trade-secret, etc. In your case, it wasn't even a personal project.
I'm not even talking about any job contract you might have signed when offered the job... I think it's standard law that one's employer owns whatever you do/make/invent/create during the hours you being paid to do stuff for him/her.
What happens when homeowners association goes bankrupt? And there are no meetings?
"I assume this is because non-Americans lose their jobs more easily."
Maybe because the boat just hit shore, and immigrants don't have a job (in the first place)??
Here's my previous post which was a reply to someone else.
As a fat person as you label yourself, YOU DON'T KNOW better about fitness than the other guy, or even anybody else.
People were never this fat yadayda read my previous post please. I hope it motivates you (if) you choose the path of fitness. (You don't have to it's everybody's personal choice.)
it doesn't mean they are genetically thin.
Genetics is the stupidest excuse ever. People 40 years ago were NEVER THIS FUCKING FAT. Kids in school were NEVER THIS FUCKING FAT 40 years ago.
DNA DID NOT CHANGE OVERNIGHT AS YOU SUGGEST. The -only- DNA explanation is if the same obese person was a parent of every baby born in America 40 years ago, and passed the 'fat' genes on... OBVIOUSLY THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN.
The fact that Chinese people are expected to be (and probably are) hard-working, lean people is WHY they are so. It's part of what being chinese is.
To be a huge waterballoon in America is normal by now because that is American culture. It feels okay in a way that no Chinese person would feel okay for themselves to get that big.
Plus, chinese families have big kids, too. Which shows it is the American diet that made them so, not genes. And the other fat kids are non-chinese but also on America's 'eat shit' plan.
THE ONLY WAY TO PUT ON FAT is to eat more calories than you burn. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.
I'm sure every person who NEVER EXERCISED IN THEIR LIFE because they are afraid to BREAK A SWEAT wants to blame genetics.
But the people who HAVE EXERCISED and are not afraid to BREAK A SWEAT during their life are fitter now and know it's for the CHOICES they made. FITNESS IS A CHOICE. I don't care if you think your body TYPE can't ever be a MARATHON RUNNER.
The people with body types which you DO think can become professional runners ARE NOT GOING TO BE PROFESSIONAL RUNNERS. FITNESS IS NOT ABOUT DOING A MARATHON. IT'S ABOUT BEING ACTIVE and in shape as defined by European, not american, standards.
-MOST PEOPLE WILL NEVER GET TO THE EXTREME STAGE OF FITNESS WHERE THEY ARE THE TOP %.0001 IN A SPORT and can't compete with the TOP %.000001 because of their body type limitations. IT JUST NOT GONNA HAPPEN FOR YOU OR FOR ALMOST ANYBODY to get to that stage. Your BODY TYPE is NO type there is no LABEL for a body. WE ARE ALL BUILT THE SAME, AND BREAKING A SWEAT --OFTEN-- will make you lose weight.
TO LOSE WEIGHT, you will need to work hard. But at any points you want to PAUSE, you can WORK LESS HARDER just to MAINTAIN your new weight. MAINTAINING a new weight is easier than LOSING THE WEIGHT to get there as long as maintainance running or exercise is done regularly.
SO don't think you will have to work hard for the rest of your life, just hard to get the pounds off and then you can just run a couple of times a week.
I don't know what video games. And violence he was looking at.
:/
Because the only thing I noticed. In his article, were all the fragments.
I just received in e-mail..
1) Sue for "Cable Theft" (if cable ISP)
2) Sue for "Denial of Service Attack" (since the intent of spam is to fill up your mailbox, causing you to give up real e-mails.)
3) Sue for "Espionage" if you both received a 'viagra' spamvertisement and the e-mail says it's not commercial spam, because if it's non-commercial, they were watching you through a window and wanted to notify you of viagra!
4) Is the spam for an ergonomic peripheral, like mouse or keyboard or computer chair? Or maybe, the company offers you pills to decrease your hormonones? In either case, this means they think you might have repetitive stress syndrome from using your... tool. This is either "Espionage" (they saw it), or "Intent of Deliberate Harm" (they e-mail you so much shit, they KNOW you are guaranteed to have RSS in your wrists....
5) ???
6) Profit
You KNOW it's a really slow
Grandparent: Wow, there is absolutely nothing good to post in the bin today...
Parent: How exactly is it different from other days at
if with the speed of getting NEW products out for sale, simple user accessibility things are thought about?
For instance, whether or not that cuttingboard can display pages up-side down?? The screen is on the left so many chefs can chop with their right hands with out obscuring the reading. That screen better support something so simple, so that left-handers can use it with the screen on the right. Otherwise, it's like discrimination.
As a left-hander, seeing the screen on the left just doesn't do anything for me. If I was a chef and saw a picture of the cuttingboard upside down so the screen is on the right, then... then it would make sense.
My point here is that the orientation of the object subconciously influences the appeal of such object. I am willing to bet that for each left-hander with the same upbringing and wealth as a right-hander, the right-hander will be a much more compulsive shopper. Even if all objects were designed equally, I hypothesize that if adverts showed mostly right handers using them, left-handers won't feel enough of a connection with many products to buy them. Many lefties draw or use computers because much of everything else is harder to adopt to ( or achieve an appeal for ) since gears and knobs turn the other way around.
So we get some chefs that, if left-handed, probably have to custom order knives to get a descent knife since most models are only right-handed. How ridiculous it would be if that cuttingboard doesn't support left-handers (which it probably doesn't!)
Sad how if it supported left-handers, it would have had it as a (publicized) feature. Sad how things can't just be designed hand-neutral in the first place.
With 30 million left-handers in America, stuff like this is kinda important to consider.
So, somebody who can only write stuff for Windows is less complete than someone who can write stuff, or take others' code and port back and forth, in both Windows and Linux? :) Well, that is true if all the dual platformers are more experienced than the single platform dudes. However, that isn't true. And besides, it depends on the task.
:\
And still, if I needed to hire somebody to transfer Duke3d to Linux, I would still probably go with a 30 year-experience Windows or Dos guy than a 2 year programming experience guy who can program in both Win and Lin.
How cool--saying Lin is much shorter and gets rid of the UX. This makes Lin more equal to Win?
Clearly this is proof that Editors don't click the linked pages before posting regularly like the should...
:)
This is also proof that after posting it, they don't preview what they just did.
And the third thing is that after it's been seen already by thousands, they still haven't fixed it.
Oh well, at least that april fool's REAL whitespace language article was good
The hoopla is that basically, you cannot call yourself an Engineer unless you have been certified in Engineering and licensed to perform Engineering.
A lot of people consider themselves Software Engineers, but since they are unlicensed, many states (Texas) disallow this practice of these people labeling themselves as Engineers.
I think licenses make sense, and a program that would license Software Engineers would kick ass (and actually would need to exist for licenses to be possible.)
I'm actually surprised this is finally on slashdot, since someone always mentions the Texas case whenever a story mentions "Software Engineer(ing)" in it.
At some schools, CS students can be mixed in with various types of Engineering students. Both groups will take similar math classes and physics classes their first two years, but Engineers seem to act holier. It would be kick ass to be able to get a B.S. in CS and then be certified as a Software Engineer.
Maybe this would require having taken a couple of engineering courses, but this would be the best.
Then, we'll be both scientists and engineers!
Instead of asking the question "Are programmer's engineers?", I think we should have the following answered:
Most computer software programming career-oriented students take Computer Science. If a BS in Software Engineering could make you an Engineer (after licensure) instead of a Scientist, would you take that path instead? If American schools split CS into those two majors, how would the focus of each of these differ, and which payscale could be bigger?
I know some schools have Software Engineering, so how do existing SE majors differ from CS?
Story plots for sci-fi... All I can think of are CROP CIRCLES!
Yes, there are a lot of interesting plots for sci-fi in Alabama. PLOTS OF LAND, haha!
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
Great news! This puts us that much closer to being able to run Linux on anything such as a PC! Oh, wait...
There is no psychology really involved... Just treat the programmers as the professionals they are. Treat them like people.
Whenever you see those words on Slashdot, it implies that Win 2003 Compact Disks or DVDs are going to be stamped at a factory from a set of master disks. Going gold does not mean they sold anything!
;x
Oh well, every post prior to this one doesn't realize this
It's currently at 1, and this guy is correct. I believe this is the answer to all boredom and "lack of morale"-related issues, because the world has probably been the same way at your job since day 1, but now you have poor morale? That means it is YOU who have changed, not the environment.
Which is the answer in itself--you have been the same way since day 1. Do some more interesting stuff! In school, you progress year to year automagically with no effort and experience new teachers, classrooms, classmates, life changes, friends, neighbors. After you settle at a job or college, it is then that the true test happens. Instead of riding the age scale to adulthood, you now determine your next move. So take it! You want that girl? Go talk to her and express your feelings. You want to have more fun at the company? Have more fun! Do with your workspace would make it more fun. Consider it your company (since you work there and are a part of it.)
And don't buy/over-consume stuff if it's just to (in your opinion) impress society for no valid reason. Do WHAT YOU WANT with the money, and that will also improve morale for every dollar you earn. I know you're supposed to buy those $900 italian shoes and pretty bmw, but you know yourself that you maybe would rather save the money to buy a horse on a farm or something, then do it!
Your job IS your life. No, it doesn't mean your work should be all-encompassing of your life; and no, it doesn't mean your job has to define you or how intelligent you are. But it IS your life and livelyhood so don't make the life stop at 9 and start at 5!
So the best thing you can do to raise morale is to make people read the above. As I'm writing this, it's good information for myself and I hope others will too find it insightful.
Slashdot, OR: Slashdot.org today reports that the state of Missouri has figured out a new way to raise revenue while defending its citizen's rights.
.con companies.
Missouri's plan revolves around suing the spammers who trash resources of businesses with fax machines by sending commercial faxes, which Fax.com is alleged of doing.
"This business plan of this state leads others above and beyond any other similar proposed measure to restore dot com revenue in the declining economy," a slashdot poster said.
"Not that Missouri is a technologically important state. Heck, I don't even live there", he admitted. "However, I think it is an important lesson for other states to sue spammers as soon as possible to get as much money back as possible."
The reason for urgency is simple -- there is only so much money that an ex.com can be ripped for before it presses the Ch. 7 button on the TV remote, pointing at itself.
It was discovered shortly after the story broke that Fax.com had it's OWN business plan, too. We received the following from an anonymous source:
Fax.com BUSINESS PLAN
=======================
1) Violate junk fax law
2) Hope the law is invalidated when Missouri sues you; stay cool when the case goes for appeal.
3) Keep spamming for 5 more months to show your company's confidence in winning the appeal, too.
4) Get fined $5.4 million USD by the FCC for those 5 months of confidence and ignoring their requests
5) Get sued by a a businessman (within the month of #4) for $2.2 Trillion USD.
6) Learn that you lost the appeal and will probably lose every case against you.
Fortunately, a glimpse into a brighter future of the economy and privacy is not all that this latest announcement provides.
7) ??
8) Profit (?)
--
Unconfirmed reports say that this level of discredibility and the news of losing the appeals decision has FOXNEWS, part FOX Broadcasting Company, worried.
The AP wire reports that FOX.com is considering suing Fax.com also, but for a different reason.
A representative speaking on the condition of anonymity told us over the phone,
"We have always assumed that Fax.com was not a credible organization. Now, the court decision is proof that Fax.com is so untrustworthy or discredited that we fear people will confuse Fax.com with FOXNEWS.com."
A quote from a press release, added shortly to FOX's web site after the story broke, clears up why there could be confusion.
"It's NOT exactly because our domain names are similar that we are so upset. We just feel that this discredibility will have people confusing Fax.com with FOX.COM or FOXNEWS.COM due to the high level of discredibility that we here at the FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY NEWS DEPARTMENT strive to provide. We are seriously considering our own legal action. But it is true that we cannot have a competitor with a similar domain name trying to out do us."
The news of the court challenge means Fax.com will probably have to go bankrupt to debt. According to a Uranus Marketing survey, Fax.com is one of the last remaining of 14 profitable dot
Even with the sentimental value, many readers of slashdot regarded this news as unimportant, expressing their sentiments wholeheartedly.
"We can just wait to read this until the second or third time it's posted on slashdot, thank you very much."
--
Missouri's win shows that states can do a lot to improve their economy and fight spam, too. However, that's not where the story ends.
In fact, the REAL story here is that this is slashdot's fourth article in a series of content covering Fax.com and its money woes.
Surprisingly, no dupes have been reported and each slashdot report was a new update on the case.
-
CmdrTaco could not be reached for comment.
First, a year ago (march 31), a federal court ruled that suing Fax.com under this law was unconstitutional.
Then, the FCC in August fined fax.com for doing what it was doing.
You'd think that was a lot of money? Next, later in August, Alert newsreporter Slashdot reported that Fax.com was being sued for 2.2 TRILLION dollars
Hillarity ensued!
So now, Fax.com owes 5.4 million + 2.2 Trillion (actually 2.2 billion) which is still 2.2 Billion USD.
However, since Fax.com is a business, all assets will just be seized of the business and the owners will lose nothing except the business.
Har har!
I've seen maybe 20 dupe stories in the past six months, three sets within three days once, and a case when a dupe was a story already on front page and a copy of the second article on the front page.
The reason slashdot is still successful is obvious -- see this FAQ answer.
controlling free software? Good, bad? The [probably] biggest Microsoft Windows desktop customer supporting Red Hat... Sounds like a kick in the face for Microsoft.
iMacs will truly be missed. ...Now all that's left is for us to get rid of the iMac Lab to fill it with PC's.
On an interesting note, Dell's Laptop Latitude C-Family was created in 1997 and is only being phased out now.
I hear they've got the "flying to a building within a 1 mile radius" part done. Wouldn't it be not much more difficult to extend the radius to 250 miles? What would be involved?
Lots and lots of square miles.
With no external communication and tracking allowed, these robots will end up... who knows where? Who knows where?
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That's right, who knows where! Be ready as the creators will have 5 hours to scout the desert for their robots before the sandstorm hits (or something)!
Nah, I'm sure the robots will be allowed to shoot a flare or something! Oh wait:
"...a vehicle that clears a path by setting everything in its way on fire, or a vehicle that digs large holes, are unacceptable.
Hmm..
Go ahead and try to find your robot after a sandstorm or something happens, and you have to 1) find it yourself magically 2) dig it up yourself because the robots aren't allowed to.
I hope DARPA go through with this contest, it's the most ingenious waste of taxpayer money ever--it can waste a $1,000,000 OR be the cheapest way to research an awesome design (whoever wins the contest.) I would so watch this on TV.