My problem isn't PayPal - it's the frickin' parent company of eBay.
The spam and phishing from PayPal is insignificant compared to the crap I get through eBay should I try to auction or sell off an old computer system. (Next to charity donation, it's the best recycling system I have available) The last 3 auctions I did - it took me 6 weeks to get rid of a Tablet PC because the first auction was terminated by a Nigerian trying to defraud me, the 2nd derailed because of the first's premature termination, and the third because of buyer's reluctance to look at something that had been up for auction twice before. The laptop that followed was sniped by another Nigerian fraudster.
During the whole process, I probably received on the order of 12 'messages' about my auctions by spammers. 12 spams is pretty low, except that I have to delete them out of my email, delete them from the item's message queue, and then last delete them from the eBay "My Messages" inbox as well. If I have to delete spam from 3 different locations, and there's no simple way of informing eBay that a message is spam, they're obviously complicit, incompetent or they honestly don't give a damn.
Nevermind that most researchers are ambivalent that Vista is actually more secure than the previous Windows XP. Nevermind that most large organizations take YEARS to adopt new operating systems - Principal Financial Services, headquartered in my town as a major employer, adopted XP 3 years after it was released!
TFA is not necessarily "White House says use our secure Vista or You're Fired!" It's about standardizing the security settings on both existing XP and future Vista systems. Vista is promoted in the article because all federal databases and applications will have to run on it someday. I'll let the better geeks argue about homgeneity of systems, Vista's general health and superior security still being evaluated - and not mention the value of using MS vs the OS 'nixes. But the summary is specious. (But what else is new?)
Just speaking from experience as a retail tool for Musicland Inc., the rules were not there to punish employees who were behaving badly. The rules were there so your bosses could contrive of reasons to fire you before you threatened them, and for underlings willing to subvert the system and get their bosses fired.
I'm not saying that everyone who got canned for 'store theft' was innocent, but it was interesting to hear how "a-list" employees and managers would suddenly see a change in fortunes over a few months and then suddenly be fired for theft or other rules infractions.
This Card? Unfortunately, no, it doesn't have an AM tuner in it. Belive me, I wish it did, because I'd use it to record all sorts of AM-only programming.
These TV boards are easy to set up with a radio - FM and VHF TV signals interlap in spectra. AM Radio requires another piece of tuner hardware mated to the device.
Of course, someone brainier than me will now correct my usage of the word spectra . .
I'm amazed I haven't seen this yet - old laptop, old CD's of of 1995 era video games, old joystick (maybe even a new one with an adapter), a wireless keyboard & mouse into the PS/2 port & an SVGA out port and cable.
. . and . . Duke Nukem 3D lives on a new console machine!
..this also goes for Mechwarrior, Star Wars Dark Forces, Sam & Max, Full Throttle, Wolfenstein 3D, or any other pre Win95 videogame. And even some of the Win95 videogames can run with a little tenacity.
I got tired of keeping big rusting hulk Pentium boxes around just to play the videogames I still enjoy, and my wife no longer argues with me about how loud, large, and ugly they are in our family room.
Why yes it is - but if you'd RTFA you'd realize that the retroNebulas nomination is specifically for the award-winning cartoon first done by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese, two titans of humour.
The current Duck Dodgers is nothing but Waner Brothers sliding down the same whorish slope Disney has blazed.
I suspect every state in the union probably has a Use Tax. I'm contemplating starting a small buisness and didn't know jack about the Use Tax until I read the online reference for Sales Tax Licensees in Iowa.
"If you purchase tangible property for use in Iowa from a business located outside of Iowa and the seller does not charge you Iowa sales tax on the purchase, you owe a 5% tax known as the consumer's use tax on the price of the purchase. This includes items purchased from catalogs, magazines, television and radio vendors, and through the Internet."
- to the holy grail of delayed digital audio recording and playback in one appliance unit.
Really folks, how hard can it be to make something that turns itself on a at preset time, catches broadcasts in through a built-in antenna (or a jack from an outside source), records them to some media, even an analog casette tape, and then shuts itself off again? Its called a VCR when attached to a TV and has been around for over a decade! How hard can it be to make the radio version?
And I'm sick of having to fuss with the computer in order to do this crap. There are some good programs out there that will let you do these things, but the inherent wekness is the computer itself. There are too many tasks and other things I want my computer to do and worry about instead. 50% of the time I do set the computer up, something happens and the program isn't recorded as I want.
There has got to be an XML or Linux geek out there who can program something like this for a dedicated one-step applaince. Unfortunately, I'm not the geek.
Let's poll the big American PC hardware makers as sort of a proof of Cringely's idea:
Well, IBM is run by the same group of identical white men who's real identity is irrelavent because they're all IBM men. Dell is still run by Michael Dell; same with Gateway and Ted Waitt. (And somehow, the commercials with Teddy talking to a cow that sounds suspicously like Maurice LeMarche taking over the world once again, probably is a prime example of founder-led companies doing silly, if not stupid things) And as we all know, Jobs the radical is driving Apple again. And, if you belive RXC, they're going to be around for awhile. Doesn't mean that they'll make good computers, but that they'll be around for a while.
But HP . . HP is now being run by Carly Fiorina, a professional manager- who's engaged in corporate warfare against HP's founding heirs . . in a battle to swallow Compaq that had dubious value except to keep Fiorina at the helm for another couple years; and now in the late stages of merger, both companies "redundant" capacities and divisions are being cut. Based on the premise of the article, HP's days are numbered. It may just take a few years for the behmoth to fall down.
Obviously, someone knew he was going to get slashdotted. Wil's website has already batten'd the hatches and is off the net in order to protect his poor, long-suffering host from the strangling bandwidth. No word from Wil as to when it, and the forums, will be back up.
IRC chat is still available on the Undernet (no pithy comments, please) on channel #wwdn.
You can't tell me that someone will not have one of these black boxes opened, guts splayed all over the work table, and singing "I Can't Drive 55" within one or two days of release. If the information is encrypted, it may take a week. Kits for home modification, including any custom port plugs that are used, will be available for disgruntled teens to purchase within a month. And then PT Cruisers across the nation will begin reporting that your little geek has been remarkably law-abiding when they've gotten behind the wheel.
If there's a product that screams, "Hack me Now, long and hard!", any lounder, I don't know what it is.
Note that the Court unanimously came to the decision issued by Justice Kennedy, which speaks volumes about the arguments accepted and issued within the case during orals and in deliberation. The court saw what would happen if there was even one rule of [patent] law pushed out of whack by narrower ruling, and accepted the status quo in the intrest of stability.
According to my wife, she should have:
* several doses of an anti-yeast infection medication.
* a lice comb suitable for any area.
* and a tattoo in a prominent location reading, "If found, please return to . . "
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The spam and phishing from PayPal is insignificant compared to the crap I get through eBay should I try to auction or sell off an old computer system. (Next to charity donation, it's the best recycling system I have available) The last 3 auctions I did - it took me 6 weeks to get rid of a Tablet PC because the first auction was terminated by a Nigerian trying to defraud me, the 2nd derailed because of the first's premature termination, and the third because of buyer's reluctance to look at something that had been up for auction twice before. The laptop that followed was sniped by another Nigerian fraudster.
During the whole process, I probably received on the order of 12 'messages' about my auctions by spammers. 12 spams is pretty low, except that I have to delete them out of my email, delete them from the item's message queue, and then last delete them from the eBay "My Messages" inbox as well. If I have to delete spam from 3 different locations, and there's no simple way of informing eBay that a message is spam, they're obviously complicit, incompetent or they honestly don't give a damn.
Nevermind that most researchers are ambivalent that Vista is actually more secure than the previous Windows XP. Nevermind that most large organizations take YEARS to adopt new operating systems - Principal Financial Services, headquartered in my town as a major employer, adopted XP 3 years after it was released! TFA is not necessarily "White House says use our secure Vista or You're Fired!" It's about standardizing the security settings on both existing XP and future Vista systems. Vista is promoted in the article because all federal databases and applications will have to run on it someday. I'll let the better geeks argue about homgeneity of systems, Vista's general health and superior security still being evaluated - and not mention the value of using MS vs the OS 'nixes. But the summary is specious. (But what else is new?)
Just speaking from experience as a retail tool for Musicland Inc., the rules were not there to punish employees who were behaving badly. The rules were there so your bosses could contrive of reasons to fire you before you threatened them, and for underlings willing to subvert the system and get their bosses fired. I'm not saying that everyone who got canned for 'store theft' was innocent, but it was interesting to hear how "a-list" employees and managers would suddenly see a change in fortunes over a few months and then suddenly be fired for theft or other rules infractions.
This Card? Unfortunately, no, it doesn't have an AM tuner in it. Belive me, I wish it did, because I'd use it to record all sorts of AM-only programming.
These TV boards are easy to set up with a radio - FM and VHF TV signals interlap in spectra. AM Radio requires another piece of tuner hardware mated to the device.
Of course, someone brainier than me will now correct my usage of the word spectra . .
I'm amazed I haven't seen this yet - old laptop, old CD's of of 1995 era video games, old joystick (maybe even a new one with an adapter), a wireless keyboard & mouse into the PS/2 port & an SVGA out port and cable.
.this also goes for Mechwarrior, Star Wars Dark Forces, Sam & Max, Full Throttle, Wolfenstein 3D, or any other pre Win95 videogame. And even some of the Win95 videogames can run with a little tenacity.
. . and . . Duke Nukem 3D lives on a new console machine!
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I got tired of keeping big rusting hulk Pentium boxes around just to play the videogames I still enjoy, and my wife no longer argues with me about how loud, large, and ugly they are in our family room.
Just in case you missed it . . It's particularly appropriate, because the episode is about . . ballast . . *snort*
Witness "The Passion", which was an enormous success largely because it got people out to movies that normally can't stomach them.
Anyone who can stomach the ultraviolent Passion, but not The Daily Show, has more serious problems than just being politically offended.
Why yes it is - but if you'd RTFA you'd realize that the retroNebulas nomination is specifically for the award-winning cartoon first done by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese, two titans of humour.
The current Duck Dodgers is nothing but Waner Brothers sliding down the same whorish slope Disney has blazed.
See this part of the thread about Use Taxes.
I suspect every state in the union probably has a Use Tax. I'm contemplating starting a small buisness and didn't know jack about the Use Tax until I read the online reference for Sales Tax Licensees in Iowa.
"If you purchase tangible property for use in Iowa from a business located outside of Iowa and the seller does not charge you Iowa sales tax on the purchase, you owe a 5% tax known as the consumer's use tax on the price of the purchase. This includes items purchased from catalogs, magazines, television and radio vendors, and through the Internet."
Like this is gonna happen.
- to the holy grail of delayed digital audio recording and playback in one appliance unit. Really folks, how hard can it be to make something that turns itself on a at preset time, catches broadcasts in through a built-in antenna (or a jack from an outside source), records them to some media, even an analog casette tape, and then shuts itself off again? Its called a VCR when attached to a TV and has been around for over a decade! How hard can it be to make the radio version? And I'm sick of having to fuss with the computer in order to do this crap. There are some good programs out there that will let you do these things, but the inherent wekness is the computer itself. There are too many tasks and other things I want my computer to do and worry about instead. 50% of the time I do set the computer up, something happens and the program isn't recorded as I want. There has got to be an XML or Linux geek out there who can program something like this for a dedicated one-step applaince. Unfortunately, I'm not the geek.
Let's poll the big American PC hardware makers as sort of a proof of Cringely's idea:
Well, IBM is run by the same group of identical white men who's real identity is irrelavent because they're all IBM men. Dell is still run by Michael Dell; same with Gateway and Ted Waitt. (And somehow, the commercials with Teddy talking to a cow that sounds suspicously like Maurice LeMarche taking over the world once again, probably is a prime example of founder-led companies doing silly, if not stupid things) And as we all know, Jobs the radical is driving Apple again. And, if you belive RXC, they're going to be around for awhile. Doesn't mean that they'll make good computers, but that they'll be around for a while.
But HP . . HP is now being run by Carly Fiorina, a professional manager- who's engaged in corporate warfare against HP's founding heirs . . in a battle to swallow Compaq that had dubious value except to keep Fiorina at the helm for another couple years; and now in the late stages of merger, both companies "redundant" capacities and divisions are being cut. Based on the premise of the article, HP's days are numbered. It may just take a few years for the behmoth to fall down.
Obviously, someone knew he was going to get slashdotted. Wil's website has already batten'd the hatches and is off the net in order to protect his poor, long-suffering host from the strangling bandwidth. No word from Wil as to when it, and the forums, will be back up.
IRC chat is still available on the Undernet (no pithy comments, please) on channel #wwdn.
You can't tell me that someone will not have one of these black boxes opened, guts splayed all over the work table, and singing "I Can't Drive 55" within one or two days of release. If the information is encrypted, it may take a week. Kits for home modification, including any custom port plugs that are used, will be available for disgruntled teens to purchase within a month. And then PT Cruisers across the nation will begin reporting that your little geek has been remarkably law-abiding when they've gotten behind the wheel. If there's a product that screams, "Hack me Now, long and hard!", any lounder, I don't know what it is.
Note that the Court unanimously came to the decision issued by Justice Kennedy, which speaks volumes about the arguments accepted and issued within the case during orals and in deliberation. The court saw what would happen if there was even one rule of [patent] law pushed out of whack by narrower ruling, and accepted the status quo in the intrest of stability.
According to my wife, she should have: * several doses of an anti-yeast infection medication. * a lice comb suitable for any area. * and a tattoo in a prominent location reading, "If found, please return to . . "