What's more annoying is that Slashdot's new ad system totally breaks the page in IE 7. I know, who here at Slashdot cares about IE 7. well only about 80% of the net who uses it.
How dare Microsoft create such a great feature like their search. I used to use google desktop but got tired of it's limited abilities. I couldn't tell it where to store it's massive database and unfortunately did not have enough space on the C: drive to keep it.
Google's "indie street cred" is about as bogus as Apple's. They are both companies and for one second if you think that their main concern is anything but profit, then I have a bridge to sell you.
About six months ago I went in and was looking for some memory, I told the guy it was online for 49 bucks and the item on the shelf was 69. He goes to the site and says, "Nope. it's 69 online." I had my treo still set at the besyt buy site and I turned it on and said "Is this not the same SKU?" It was. He scratches his beard and says "I don't get it. Let me ask my manager." Manager comes over and says "Ah. We must have a cached page. It's 49 dollars"
Now. Maybe.. But I doubt it was a cached page. This explains alot.
" By forcing the IANA to hand out a copy of the master key, the US government will be the only institution that is able to spoof IP addresses and be able to break into computers connected to the Internet without much effort."
All you need to do is "spoof" an IP and you're in? Wow..
This is how it works in the world of the Socialist, and what I mean by "the world of the Socialist", I mean here - at Slashdot.
All capitalists are bad. Other than making money, they would love nothing more than to screw their suppliers out of business. They would love if they had no suppliers. I know it makes no sense that the retailers would want to end up with no product to sell, but that's just how it is. The Socialists tell me so. Always make it sound like the big bad corporations have their henchmen posted in some far off land, oppressing the poor third world farmer, cracking the whip, forcing them to BE farmers or textile workers.
Never allow blame to be placed on the LOCAL governments who can't get their shit together economically and create good jobs for their people.
When quoting value, always make sure your numbers are absolute in relation to the US dollar. 3 US cents is equivalent to nearly 28 cents US in Ethopia. This doesn't matter of course and as a rule of thumb, you ALWAYS use the US equiv when out selling the propaganda. The US economy is stronger than any third world country and you wouldn't want them to know that an the average Ethopian would sell their sister for the land to grow coffee beans on.
...is that slashdot and many of it's readers are replying to this seriously.
This story has no merit. If it were real, why not post the real name of the site that this person sending this email? Why not at least post the keywords that supposedly are being used?
Surely there is no expectation of privacy or confidentiality from sending a non-solicited email.
We have a client that we send out over 30,000 emails per month using campaignmonitor.com.
Their list is a double opt-in and still every month we get notified by campaign monitor that there were users in the list who complained of spam. EVERY single one of them were AOL users.
Even though there was an un-subscribe at the bottom of the newsletter they explicitly subscribed to, AOL has a nice little button for them to click if they no longer want to receive those emails. Then AOL automatically submits a spam complaint.
We used the ORBS and spamcop modules on our email server but stopped using them because we would have lots of users complaining that they they wouldn't receive email from clients because they would get trapped. Most were just regular uers whose ISP's had IP's on the list.
I used to be one of those SPAMCOP/ORBS Nazis, taking the "at any cost" attitude to reduce spam, however in the real world, the blacklists are just too inaccurate.
I thought I might have been alone when it comes to requirements of a cell phone.
Recently I had to purchase a new phone and was bombarded by features that I could really care less about. The salesperson was incredulous that all I wanted was a frikkin phone that simply just made calls and didn't drop them.
What's that? I can run iTunes and listen to mp3's at sub standard audio quality?! I can use my phone to surf the web and buy things at ebay? I can read news on the tiny screen? I can download tetris? I can set my ringer to a song sang by our latest American Idol wannabes!? Wow!
UN-IMPRESSED.. Want to impress me? Give me a phone that will not drop my calls when I walk into my basement. The only feature I think is useful is bluetooth, and that's only because the wireless headsets are all bluetooth.
I've used their FREE Enterprise Firewall built on their OS and it's great. Awesome GUI ap that can be used to configure it from anywhere on any platform (It's built in Java). If their distro is anything like their firewall ap, I'd use it.
nope. That's not true. The beta 8 would complain for anything less than 256 bit. When the final was released they pulled back to 40 and 56 bit keys which hadn't been sold for some time. They received such a backlash, they changed it for the release version of 8.
I wrote off Opera the when they came out with v8 and decided to tell the user every time that they visited a site not using a 256bit key that the site cert was defective.
I wasted countless hours trying to assure our clients that their users contacting them was nothing to worry about.
The opera folks trumped the firefox arrogance and assumed that since Verisign had just started selling 256bit certs, then all sites should immediately upgrad their cert regardless of cost or validity of their current cert.
Maybe they were receiving checks from Verisign?
The latest version for me crashes constantly. Unfortunately I'm so hooked on the Fox now I can't stop using it.
I'm waiting for them to hammer out the flaws.
As an aside, deleting the profiles and creating a new one seems to cause the stability to return for a few days. then back to crashing.
Some friends bought a Gateway about a year ago. He was having some trouble with it running for no more than 15 minutes without spontaneously rebooting. I figured it was the $10 dollar power supply that Gateway uses in their desktop systems and swung by with a spare I had.
Well, what a surprise- The power supplies they use are slightly narrow to fit into the slightly narrow case. An off the shelf unit won't work. So we get get Gateway on the line to ask them how much they are going to rape him for a new one. "David" answers the phone, reading from his script. We had had several beers at this point and I was a bit salty because of the unnecessary power supply footprint they were using.
"David" wants to walk us thru a troubleshooting session and I wasn't having it. "David", I said, "Just tell me how much a new power supply is." "$105.00 is the price sir, delivered to your door in approximately 3-5 business days not including holidays..." "Stop David", I barked back, "I get it. I know how shipping works. I'll tell you what, you tell me what your real name is and I think I can get James (my friend) to order one of these over priced and low quality power supplies from you."
"My name is David, sir."
"David... Come on now... What city are you in right now?"
"Umm. Hold on sir.. (20 seconds pause) I am in California."
"No what city?"
"um. I am in... Irvine"
"I'm having a real hard time understanding you. Can you put someone who speaks English on the phone?"
Silence.. 10 seconds later.. "Hello sir, this Robert, I understand you have having a problem?" His english is about as bad.
"Hi Robert. What city are in? The connection seems bad."
Long pause, covers the phone... "I am in Irvine, California. Do you need service or not? We are very busy here."
"My hearing is not very good. I was born with undersized eardrums, could you be so kind to put someone on the phone whose native tounge is English?"
"Umm. I no not understand sir."
"I am having trouble with your accent due to my defective ear drums. Your accent."
They've called me a few times to try and sell me their VOIP service.
First call they offered FREE installation and 34.95 a month.
Second call they offered me FREE installation and 19.95 for three months, then 34.95 a month
Third call they offered me FREE installation, three months FREE and 34.95 a month after that.
Each time I asked them, "How is it that Comcast can not compete with the other VOIP folks regarding price?" I have Packet 8 VOIP and i LOVE it!
Two of the responses were, "I'm not sure about that sir, thanks for your time"
The third guy actually said to me, "Well. We can offer better quality service because we designed it." I said, "So Comcast is not using the standard VOIP protocols?" and he said, "Umm. I don't know about that but I do know that our service is better than what the other companies can offer."
Oh Ok.. Whatever that means. Comcast also does NOT offer all of the features that the other companies offer so I'm not sure HOW they are better.
Screw comcast. The only reason I have them is because they are the only game in town that can offer the volume of HD programming and 6MB down on their net connection.
This statistic means nothing about the preferred OS for servers. Every time we've needed a non Windows server, we've purchased the hardware sans OS and and installed our own. And we might not have bought an assembled machine but parts and then assembled them as needed off the shelf.
How do they account for this?
Have been off planet for the past 10 years while the left has installed it's PC agenda?
Christians are not a protected group because they are the majority. It's ok for example to portray Christ in a jar of piss because they know most Christians will not blow up the art museum. Could you imagine if it weren't cartoons but an image of Mohammad in that jar?
When I was in college in Indiana there were two low rent, low price, low quality pizza places in town. One was Grog's Pizza and the other was a Bar that I can't remember the name of (it was owned by a student in Terre Haute IN, anyone?)
At Grog's you could get a 16" cheese pizza for $6.00 at the Bar you could get a 16" cheese for 9 bucks. Ocassionally you would see a coupon for buy one get one from the bar place.
Grogs takes out a ad in the student paper with some coupons with large letters. We Will Take Coupons from XXX. They also put it on their sign out front.
The next week, XXX takes out a whole page ad with nothing but coupons. $5.00 OFF a 16" cheese pizza!!!
Of course pizza lovers campus wide realizes that this means FREE PIZZA at Grogs! Sure it was crap, but it was free!
Grogs of course tries to decline and drive students into a near riot about not getting their free pizza!
Don't think Grog ever made good on that claim.
But it was fun watching drunk students getting upset over free pizza.
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What's more annoying is that Slashdot's new ad system totally breaks the page in IE 7. I know, who here at Slashdot cares about IE 7. well only about 80% of the net who uses it.
Looks great in Fox though.
How dare Microsoft create such a great feature like their search. I used to use google desktop but got tired of it's limited abilities. I couldn't tell it where to store it's massive database and unfortunately did not have enough space on the C: drive to keep it.
Google's "indie street cred" is about as bogus as Apple's. They are both companies and for one second if you think that their main concern is anything but profit, then I have a bridge to sell you.
About six months ago I went in and was looking for some memory, I told the guy it was online for 49 bucks and the item on the shelf was 69. He goes to the site and says, "Nope. it's 69 online." I had my treo still set at the besyt buy site and I turned it on and said "Is this not the same SKU?" It was. He scratches his beard and says "I don't get it. Let me ask my manager." Manager comes over and says "Ah. We must have a cached page. It's 49 dollars"
Now. Maybe.. But I doubt it was a cached page. This explains alot.
As soon as they can run Guitar Rig 2 and the entire suite of native instruments applications, I might consider it.i tarrig2swe_us
http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=gu
" By forcing the IANA to hand out a copy of the master key, the US government will be the only institution that is able to spoof IP addresses and be able to break into computers connected to the Internet without much effort."
All you need to do is "spoof" an IP and you're in? Wow..
This is how it works in the world of the Socialist, and what I mean by "the world of the Socialist", I mean here - at Slashdot.
All capitalists are bad. Other than making money, they would love nothing more than to screw their suppliers out of business. They would love if they had no suppliers. I know it makes no sense that the retailers would want to end up with no product to sell, but that's just how it is. The Socialists tell me so. Always make it sound like the big bad corporations have their henchmen posted in some far off land, oppressing the poor third world farmer, cracking the whip, forcing them to BE farmers or textile workers.
Never allow blame to be placed on the LOCAL governments who can't get their shit together economically and create good jobs for their people.
When quoting value, always make sure your numbers are absolute in relation to the US dollar. 3 US cents is equivalent to nearly 28 cents US in Ethopia. This doesn't matter of course and as a rule of thumb, you ALWAYS use the US equiv when out selling the propaganda. The US economy is stronger than any third world country and you wouldn't want them to know that an the average Ethopian would sell their sister for the land to grow coffee beans on.
...is that slashdot and many of it's readers are replying to this seriously.
This story has no merit. If it were real, why not post the real name of the site that this person sending this email? Why not at least post the keywords that supposedly are being used?
Surely there is no expectation of privacy or confidentiality from sending a non-solicited email.
I call bullshit.
We have a client that we send out over 30,000 emails per month using campaignmonitor.com.
Their list is a double opt-in and still every month we get notified by campaign monitor that there were users in the list who complained of spam. EVERY single one of them were AOL users.
Even though there was an un-subscribe at the bottom of the newsletter they explicitly subscribed to, AOL has a nice little button for them to click if they no longer want to receive those emails. Then AOL automatically submits a spam complaint.
We used the ORBS and spamcop modules on our email server but stopped using them because we would have lots of users complaining that they they wouldn't receive email from clients because they would get trapped. Most were just regular uers whose ISP's had IP's on the list.
I used to be one of those SPAMCOP/ORBS Nazis, taking the "at any cost" attitude to reduce spam, however in the real world, the blacklists are just too inaccurate.
I thought I might have been alone when it comes to requirements of a cell phone.
Recently I had to purchase a new phone and was bombarded by features that I could really care less about. The salesperson was incredulous that all I wanted was a frikkin phone that simply just made calls and didn't drop them.
What's that? I can run iTunes and listen to mp3's at sub standard audio quality?! I can use my phone to surf the web and buy things at ebay? I can read news on the tiny screen? I can download tetris? I can set my ringer to a song sang by our latest American Idol wannabes!? Wow!
UN-IMPRESSED.. Want to impress me? Give me a phone that will not drop my calls when I walk into my basement. The only feature I think is useful is bluetooth, and that's only because the wireless headsets are all bluetooth.
As far as most people in the US is concerned, there IS only one Ketchup and it's John Kerry's wife that's attached to it.
Funny how politics and condiments are tied together, huh.
More paranoia coming from the left. He's a felon, give the DNA. They only thing they can do with it is index it against DNA taken from a crime scene.
Is it overkill for his crime? Possibly. Might it keep him from associating with the wrong people or getting into trouble again? Quite possibly.
More accurately, Eolas went to the biggest fish in the pond and asked them to pay up a licensing fee or they would be sued.
SCO used a similar tactic and ultimately lost.
wooo.. eh eh eh. Whew. Ok. Outof breath from laughing. I think your much larger problem is that you are a ".NET Developer".
I've used their FREE Enterprise Firewall built on their OS and it's great. Awesome GUI ap that can be used to configure it from anywhere on any platform (It's built in Java). If their distro is anything like their firewall ap, I'd use it.
I agree. The media does a good job of making Arabs look like they are crazy!
nope. That's not true. The beta 8 would complain for anything less than 256 bit. When the final was released they pulled back to 40 and 56 bit keys which hadn't been sold for some time. They received such a backlash, they changed it for the release version of 8.
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Here's an example of a cert that is up to spec but Opera claims that it's not: http://my.opera.com/Tired/homes/files/old_forum_i
Truly revolutionary. I can't wait to get this bad ass up and running.
I wrote off Opera the when they came out with v8 and decided to tell the user every time that they visited a site not using a 256bit key that the site cert was defective. I wasted countless hours trying to assure our clients that their users contacting them was nothing to worry about. The opera folks trumped the firefox arrogance and assumed that since Verisign had just started selling 256bit certs, then all sites should immediately upgrad their cert regardless of cost or validity of their current cert. Maybe they were receiving checks from Verisign?
The latest version for me crashes constantly. Unfortunately I'm so hooked on the Fox now I can't stop using it. I'm waiting for them to hammer out the flaws. As an aside, deleting the profiles and creating a new one seems to cause the stability to return for a few days. then back to crashing.
Some friends bought a Gateway about a year ago. He was having some trouble with it running for no more than 15 minutes without spontaneously rebooting. I figured it was the $10 dollar power supply that Gateway uses in their desktop systems and swung by with a spare I had.
Well, what a surprise- The power supplies they use are slightly narrow to fit into the slightly narrow case. An off the shelf unit won't work. So we get get Gateway on the line to ask them how much they are going to rape him for a new one. "David" answers the phone, reading from his script. We had had several beers at this point and I was a bit salty because of the unnecessary power supply footprint they were using.
"David" wants to walk us thru a troubleshooting session and I wasn't having it. "David", I said, "Just tell me how much a new power supply is." "$105.00 is the price sir, delivered to your door in approximately 3-5 business days not including holidays..." "Stop David", I barked back, "I get it. I know how shipping works. I'll tell you what, you tell me what your real name is and I think I can get James (my friend) to order one of these over priced and low quality power supplies from you."
"My name is David, sir."
"David... Come on now... What city are you in right now?"
"Umm. Hold on sir.. (20 seconds pause) I am in California."
"No what city?"
"um. I am in... Irvine"
"I'm having a real hard time understanding you. Can you put someone who speaks English on the phone?"
Silence.. 10 seconds later.. "Hello sir, this Robert, I understand you have having a problem?" His english is about as bad.
"Hi Robert. What city are in? The connection seems bad."
Long pause, covers the phone... "I am in Irvine, California. Do you need service or not? We are very busy here."
"My hearing is not very good. I was born with undersized eardrums, could you be so kind to put someone on the phone whose native tounge is English?"
"Umm. I no not understand sir."
"I am having trouble with your accent due to my defective ear drums. Your accent."
"I'm sorry sir, but I can not help you."
Click..
Ok. So I was being kind of an asshole.
They've called me a few times to try and sell me their VOIP service.
First call they offered FREE installation and 34.95 a month.
Second call they offered me FREE installation and 19.95 for three months, then 34.95 a month
Third call they offered me FREE installation, three months FREE and 34.95 a month after that.
Each time I asked them, "How is it that Comcast can not compete with the other VOIP folks regarding price?" I have Packet 8 VOIP and i LOVE it!
Two of the responses were, "I'm not sure about that sir, thanks for your time"
The third guy actually said to me, "Well. We can offer better quality service because we designed it." I said, "So Comcast is not using the standard VOIP protocols?" and he said, "Umm. I don't know about that but I do know that our service is better than what the other companies can offer."
Oh Ok.. Whatever that means. Comcast also does NOT offer all of the features that the other companies offer so I'm not sure HOW they are better.
Screw comcast. The only reason I have them is because they are the only game in town that can offer the volume of HD programming and 6MB down on their net connection.
This statistic means nothing about the preferred OS for servers. Every time we've needed a non Windows server, we've purchased the hardware sans OS and and installed our own. And we might not have bought an assembled machine but parts and then assembled them as needed off the shelf. How do they account for this?
Are you really that surprised?
Have been off planet for the past 10 years while the left has installed it's PC agenda?
Christians are not a protected group because they are the majority. It's ok for example to portray Christ in a jar of piss because they know most Christians will not blow up the art museum. Could you imagine if it weren't cartoons but an image of Mohammad in that jar?
Until I can record all of the HD channels, it will always be worth the $5.00 a month I pay to the cable company for their DVR box. Always.
When I was in college in Indiana there were two low rent, low price, low quality pizza places in town. One was Grog's Pizza and the other was a Bar that I can't remember the name of (it was owned by a student in Terre Haute IN, anyone?)
At Grog's you could get a 16" cheese pizza for $6.00 at the Bar you could get a 16" cheese for 9 bucks. Ocassionally you would see a coupon for buy one get one from the bar place.
Grogs takes out a ad in the student paper with some coupons with large letters. We Will Take Coupons from XXX. They also put it on their sign out front.
The next week, XXX takes out a whole page ad with nothing but coupons. $5.00 OFF a 16" cheese pizza!!!
Of course pizza lovers campus wide realizes that this means FREE PIZZA at Grogs! Sure it was crap, but it was free!
Grogs of course tries to decline and drive students into a near riot about not getting their free pizza!
Don't think Grog ever made good on that claim.
But it was fun watching drunk students getting upset over free pizza.