Breaking news! The Mayans failed to account for continental drift! New calculations show that instead of arriving in Dec 2012, the Galactic Energy Cluster actually arrived last week. There are no confirmed sightings, but there's a rumour going around in the US that the Cluster was arrested for no apparent reason and is now being held for questioning in several overseas locations.
Take a look at some images of Mt Fuji in Japan. That has to be the biggest freaking pyramid ever, right?? Nope, it's just a volcano that erupted relatively gently and gave itself a fairly even coating of lava, instead of exploding violently and leaving a broken rim.
In it, the position and building of massive structures (like pyramids) are very important to his theories.
I'm not so interested in this theory that I'd go out and buy to book, so maybe someone can tell me - out of all these whackos who claim some kind of mystical connection between far distant places, do *any* of them take into account continental drift??
I mean, if these structures really are some kind of signal to space aliens, it's going to take a *seriously* long time for the continents to get back into alignment so the the aliens will come back and enlighten (or enslave) us... Or maybe they already came back, and the alignment at the time read "Sod off" instead of "Welcome back"...
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So here's an excellent opportunity for poetic justice - NEC should turn around and *really* order those products from the innocent factories, and market them for themselves... Someone else has very kindly done the research and product development, and the products obviouly sell fairly well. The article says the bogus NEC products were of generally good quality, so why not pirate them back??
And then one day there'll be a security update that includes this NagWare *without* telling you it's part of the package. Or maybe *all* updates will include it...
It's even funnier watching people's faces when I whip out my British driver's license when they ask for ID. It's made of paper, unfolds to about letter-size, has no photo or fingerprint, and it's valid until about 2035. I have a valid US license too, for those clerks with no sense of humour...
Well, it's pretty obvious you didn't RTFA. The Windows Live email system only really works well with IE, though other posters have mentioned there's some limited functionality in Firefox. It doesn't have IMAP or POP, so you can use a mail reader such as Thunderbird, nad it's pretty much irrelevant whether it has SMTP or not, because that's for SENDING email, not for READING it.
I'd guess it doesn't have SMTP anyway, since its stated objective is to lock people into the Windows Live email system, and allowing email to be delivered to a system outside the monopoly just doesn't fit that model.
Even the At. Their. Desks. part should be kept in perspective.
Yep, sure does. When I go home, my company-supplied laptop goes with me. I could leave my password taped to my monitor, and it wouldn't do anyone any good, unless they broke into my house...
The braindead password policy around here is: at least one alphabetic, one numeric and one punctuation character. No subset of the word can be in the dictionary, and it has to be 8 characters (or more if supported by the OS).
The problem with that is that *some* systems have slightly stricter rules than others, so you can get partway through Password Change Day with a perfectly good word and then run into a machine where it isn't allowed.
Perhaps the nuttiest part of the policy is that you can't go back and change a password within 7 days. That may originally have been set up to stop a user immediately putting the password back to a previously used password, but now the change mechanism stores the last 6 or more words, so that's largely irrelevant.
Do they really think they're going to compete with gmail that late in the kids' lives?
If your prof is handing out assignments and other stuff via email, and the only way to read it is via this Windows Live crap, then yes, they really can compete. If those kids won't use Windows Live and can't use Gmail for their school stuff, they'll likely be flunking out. Now, it would be interesting to see what the school would do if an entire year flunked out because of this, but somehow I think the kids will fold before the school does.
Basically, you suck it up and refuse the test (and the job), or take it and try your luck.
I'd think that if enough of us refused to take the tests, the tests would go away... Or possibly they'd mutate into something else - except in Kansas, where nothing evolves...:)
Something is bound to come up that will prevent people from receiving refunds or something of that matter.
And then someone would organise disgruntled consumers to bring their crappy devices along and stack 'em up around all Phillips offices, and the USPTO, blocking all access. Should be worth a few minutes of prime time news coverage...
The problem is, MS-BOB doesn't necessarily need to request access to your machine to scan it. You'd bring the update installer program onto your system and execute it, negating the need to request access. While loading the updates, it can poke around and see what else you have. If it decides to send off a report, it could send email, upload to a webpage or ftp server. Are you blocking outgoing connections??
It need not be limited to running just once while installing updates. Once it's on your system, it could use spyware/virus mechanisms to set itself up to repeat on a regular basis.
If they haven't criminalized home networks and routers yet, you don't need to reverse engineer anything to keep them out. Just be careful about what you let through your firewall. Anyway, it'll probably be reverse engineered outside the USA by a bunch of folks that don't give a damn about USA laws.
No, no, you remove the decayed crap from around the hole, which then naturally falls out. If you're quick you can spit it out, because if you swallow that hole you're going to be in a world of hurt...
Maybe they've been spending some time building and calibrating the equipment to properly analyse the samples?? I doubt that NASA would be so stupid as to fire up a prototype analysis system to check out their limited supply of moon rocks...
generally it's assumed that "their software" is legally theirs, and this old machine has a tranferable license (as in, non-OEM)
Didn't Microsoft change the licensing (yet again) in the last year or so, to make it illegal to transfer Windows from one PC to another, regardless of whether you paid the full retail price?? Well, maybe not illegal, per se, but a license violation, which is the same as far as they are concerned...
I remember a few years ago there was some kind of talk about 'returning' windows licenses...does that work? did it ever?
I don't think it ever worked. The thing is, that $400 loaded PC you buy doesn't have the $120 copy of Windows that you might expect, or whatever the retail price is these days. The supplier only paid a fraction of that for their OEM version, so you'd be lucky to see $20 or $30, or whatever - I don't care enough about the issue to actually research it...
I think we're on a 3-year cycle, and my company laptop has "Warranty end 3/6/2007" on the label. Hopefully I'll get an upgrade *before* Vista shows up...
I dunno the ratio in Oklahoma, but it's common for drive-through ATMs to have Braille labels... That's a little bit scary, IMHO. There's also Braille labels on the animal cages at the local zoo...
I wouldn't say you're a disconnected Luddite. I'll happily let the answering machine pick up the house phone for me. I work at night and sleep during the day, so the phone doesn't ring in the bedroom anyway. I keep my cellphone by the bed, but not even my boss has *that* number, just my wife and kids. I figure if I'm desperately needed at work, eventually they'll think to get my son to call me (he works for the same company), or someone will make the 15min trip to my house to bang on the front door.
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Breaking news! The Mayans failed to account for continental drift! New calculations show that instead of arriving in Dec 2012, the Galactic Energy Cluster actually arrived last week. There are no confirmed sightings, but there's a rumour going around in the US that the Cluster was arrested for no apparent reason and is now being held for questioning in several overseas locations.
Take a look at some images of Mt Fuji in Japan. That has to be the biggest freaking pyramid ever, right?? Nope, it's just a volcano that erupted relatively gently and gave itself a fairly even coating of lava, instead of exploding violently and leaving a broken rim.
I'm not so interested in this theory that I'd go out and buy to book, so maybe someone can tell me - out of all these whackos who claim some kind of mystical connection between far distant places, do *any* of them take into account continental drift??
I mean, if these structures really are some kind of signal to space aliens, it's going to take a *seriously* long time for the continents to get back into alignment so the the aliens will come back and enlighten (or enslave) us... Or maybe they already came back, and the alignment at the time read "Sod off" instead of "Welcome back"...
So here's an excellent opportunity for poetic justice - NEC should turn around and *really* order those products from the innocent factories, and market them for themselves... Someone else has very kindly done the research and product development, and the products obviouly sell fairly well. The article says the bogus NEC products were of generally good quality, so why not pirate them back??
And then one day there'll be a security update that includes this NagWare *without* telling you it's part of the package. Or maybe *all* updates will include it...
It's even funnier watching people's faces when I whip out my British driver's license when they ask for ID. It's made of paper, unfolds to about letter-size, has no photo or fingerprint, and it's valid until about 2035. I have a valid US license too, for those clerks with no sense of humour...
I'd guess it doesn't have SMTP anyway, since its stated objective is to lock people into the Windows Live email system, and allowing email to be delivered to a system outside the monopoly just doesn't fit that model.
Yep, sure does. When I go home, my company-supplied laptop goes with me. I could leave my password taped to my monitor, and it wouldn't do anyone any good, unless they broke into my house...
The problem with that is that *some* systems have slightly stricter rules than others, so you can get partway through Password Change Day with a perfectly good word and then run into a machine where it isn't allowed.
Perhaps the nuttiest part of the policy is that you can't go back and change a password within 7 days. That may originally have been set up to stop a user immediately putting the password back to a previously used password, but now the change mechanism stores the last 6 or more words, so that's largely irrelevant.
If your prof is handing out assignments and other stuff via email, and the only way to read it is via this Windows Live crap, then yes, they really can compete. If those kids won't use Windows Live and can't use Gmail for their school stuff, they'll likely be flunking out. Now, it would be interesting to see what the school would do if an entire year flunked out because of this, but somehow I think the kids will fold before the school does.
I'd think that if enough of us refused to take the tests, the tests would go away... Or possibly they'd mutate into something else - except in Kansas, where nothing evolves... :)
And then someone would organise disgruntled consumers to bring their crappy devices along and stack 'em up around all Phillips offices, and the USPTO, blocking all access. Should be worth a few minutes of prime time news coverage...
It need not be limited to running just once while installing updates. Once it's on your system, it could use spyware/virus mechanisms to set itself up to repeat on a regular basis.
If they haven't criminalized home networks and routers yet, you don't need to reverse engineer anything to keep them out. Just be careful about what you let through your firewall. Anyway, it'll probably be reverse engineered outside the USA by a bunch of folks that don't give a damn about USA laws.
No, no, you remove the decayed crap from around the hole, which then naturally falls out. If you're quick you can spit it out, because if you swallow that hole you're going to be in a world of hurt...
Sorry, just had to do that...
Maybe they've been spending some time building and calibrating the equipment to properly analyse the samples?? I doubt that NASA would be so stupid as to fire up a prototype analysis system to check out their limited supply of moon rocks...
Didn't Microsoft change the licensing (yet again) in the last year or so, to make it illegal to transfer Windows from one PC to another, regardless of whether you paid the full retail price?? Well, maybe not illegal, per se, but a license violation, which is the same as far as they are concerned...
I don't think it ever worked. The thing is, that $400 loaded PC you buy doesn't have the $120 copy of Windows that you might expect, or whatever the retail price is these days. The supplier only paid a fraction of that for their OEM version, so you'd be lucky to see $20 or $30, or whatever - I don't care enough about the issue to actually research it...
I think we're on a 3-year cycle, and my company laptop has "Warranty end 3/6/2007" on the label. Hopefully I'll get an upgrade *before* Vista shows up...
I dunno the ratio in Oklahoma, but it's common for drive-through ATMs to have Braille labels... That's a little bit scary, IMHO. There's also Braille labels on the animal cages at the local zoo...
I wouldn't say you're a disconnected Luddite. I'll happily let the answering machine pick up the house phone for me. I work at night and sleep during the day, so the phone doesn't ring in the bedroom anyway. I keep my cellphone by the bed, but not even my boss has *that* number, just my wife and kids. I figure if I'm desperately needed at work, eventually they'll think to get my son to call me (he works for the same company), or someone will make the 15min trip to my house to bang on the front door.
So, in fact, Microsoft are simply following the good example set by their Government?? Hmmm...
Another option I've heard of, where the form asks for gender:
Why would non-food animals also need to be tagged, such as horses??