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I have noticed that with my cable provider, when I asked them the price, they quoted me $X. I asked again if X was the final price, and they said, no, there are these other charges, etc. When I added up all that, it was only a few dollars more, but if the bill is supposed to be $X, it should be illegal to charge more on hidden fees that the customer is not made aware of until the bill's delivery. That seems like a scam to me!
The message is, don't get caught, not don't do it! If the message were really don't do it, they wouldn't need to hand out punishments, because they'd have set a good example by not overcharging for CD's all those years. I think that any RIAA lawsuit that they win should be deducted immediately from the overcharge on CD's. Once that billion or so $ is reset to 0, then they can start suing people for money. I'd bet that they'd drop all the suits right now if that were the case. How sad! I'll have to go back to simply taping over that little tab in order to rip off music from tapes or some such thing (joke).
'the data in the email will be encrypted, so only someone that can hack our encryption method can read the text of your email.' So, I could still harvest your address, right? It'd be pretty hard to encrypt email addresses while the messages are being delivered: POST to 239frj349fu34nf3498f34nf9u834nf9834f.... nah, I don't think that will work.
This movie will be eye candy. Look at the way it's being pitched -- not by the supreme acting ability of it's characters, but by the specs of the render farm used to generate the computer graphics. Even Matrix didn't go that far -- they at least attempted to pass M3 off as a "movie" with a "plot". I definitely enjoyed M3, don't get me wrong, but it was no "usual suspects".
A land Rover can cost you $60,000, if loaded with extras that contribue to it's "poorest MPG of practically any vehicle" rating, which I believe makes it the polar opposite of this underwater thing. Why can't they make a land version that pumps air or something?
I have a great new P2P protocol. You get instant exchange of 10's of CD's at a time. It's called "in person". Generally, you have to provide money to the other person, e-mailing back and forth, etc. They burn you the CD's you want, and then you meet "in person", and exchange the money for their time in producing the CD's for you. It's great!
It's not like they guy sent the email to the FAA, threatening an airliner or something like that. He said, 'Take me off your spam list or else', only after asking nicely tons of times. Is that worth a quarter million dollar fine? NO! Just take the freakin' guy off the email spam list the first time, and it never would have escalated. This is a company that found out just how mad spam can make people... they should consider themselves lucky that he wasn't a REAL nutcase and didn't drive a truck full of nitroglycerine through the front door (very very bad)! Making personal threats of violence is wrong, but i ask this: what should be his recourse after being infuriated by being ignored and spammed countless times?
I must say, I am disppointed that no one is allowed to be legitimately pissed off without getting a lawsuit. Back in the late 1800's, people who were annoying were called out in the street and shot at. I'm not saying that shooting people is the answer, but we should be allowed to vent frustrations so long as they don't include actual, specific assault against someone. Email is not an assault, unless the person says they're gonna hurt you, and you have some reason to believe that they are not kidding around.
Did Mr. Love just have really cool parents, or did he change his name upon being written about in a Slashdot article? Furthermore, does he have a Ph.D? Because that would make him Dr. Love!
Regular mail "costs" 37 cents, but every day I get a stack of flyers in my mailbox that are metered or something, and they come from multiple sources. Charging for email will generate a lot of revenue, but just like raising the postage stamp rate, it will have 0 effect on spam.
Why would it matter that I could manage rentals offline? Does it really take that long to delete or add a rental when logged on? How many rentals would I really have? Doesn't it make 0.0 % sense to manage rentals offline, assuming that once all those people log back on, there's gonna be a huge jockeying for position in renting whatever they elected to rent the next time they log on? This shouldn't be that fantastic of an app. If Apple can't just whip this app out in one day, something is seriously wrong.
Now that this is out, do we all have to wait 5 years for businesses to think we've got 5 years' experience with it, or can we convince them that it's similar enough to MS Access, etc that our experience translates?... btw, anyone else noticed how annoyingly hard it is to convince people that your experience translates over? With a product like this, I should hope it would be obvious.
I have to admit, I have been skeptical of XML for quite a while, but I can see the advantages with a document like this. With Word being such a proprietary tool for so long, this will finally enable people to create "Word" compatible word processors that are actually 100% compatible, since all they have to do is generate an XML document, not some convoluted binary guacamole.
That's the next desktop right there. Back in 1981 or so, IBM came out with a big, clunky supercomputer called the PC. It was so freaking expensive, but so useful. Now, the desktop machines we have kill that old thing... in 20 years, we'll all have at least 1000 chips on our desks thanks to technology like this.
How does knowing whose friend is whose help me make friends? Really, it is just a complicated, expensive way of saying, "here are some people. Maybe you'll get along, maybe you won't, but your friend knows them." In reality, if I don't have many friends, I won't have many friends of friends, and if I have a lot of friends, why would I need this service? Therefore, it will end up a network of 1:1 connections.
No one wants to fiddle around with something that small to hold music... it makes much more sense that we will all have digital players that can download music at wi-fi spots, wherever we are. That way, no fiddling with cards, and if the player has the little cards in it, then it can hold x GB of music, which is plenty until you get to the next wi-fi spot, which will have different songs, etc.:-D
I have seen a hardware hard-drive ghoster. You take two drives, hook them up, and the machine copies the data drive onto the empty drive. I imagine this is a nearly foolproof way to ghost a machine, the only trouble being if you have two really different drives and the HHD ghoster doesn't recognize them. Still, I recommend hardware over software.
if I find a bug and I don't tell anyone, isn't that kinda like being a witness to a crime but not telling anyone? Sure, it's not explicitly against the law to NOT tell in some cases, but if I find a bug, as a programmer I am eaten away by it, like the tell-tale heart of Poe's writings. This company needs to wise up and realize that this guy could just as easily have released the information to bad hackers, who would cause harm.
Hmmm... Israeli super-copter stolen... 2000-year history of conflict in the area... HMMM, I wonder why that happened? Geez! Is the world really that dense? It's the same as when the rival school steals your school's mascot. Everyone knows "who" took it, it's the specifics of the who that are interesting.
That thing looks super-cool... but here's a question. How do you do a wheelie with that? What would it be like to see a motorcross event with all those things in it? Woah!
I could swear that Busta Rhymes had that in the headrests of his Lamborghini (a 2-seater). Still, why not just duct tape the kid's mouths shut? If you want them to stop fighting or whining in the car, maybe having one parent TALK to them would be a cheaper solution than a satellite TV system for the back seat.
They must be only counting distinct instances, because I am certain there are more than 60,000 total viruses (including variations). Doesn't mcAfee's (sp?) virus protector claim to protect against something like 300,000 different viruses? Are they not counting trojans, worms, and the other ancillary definitions of malicious programs?
I see the bounties as a cheap way to fix the security bugs... microsoft offers $500,000 for someone to find the author of the bug, then M$ gets them in a contract to either fix their software or go to jail... NICE!
Count me in, but here's an interesting question. I have a degree in Fine Art and a number of other experiences that I believe would qualify me for the program. What should really be the criteria for being accepted to the program?
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I have noticed that with my cable provider, when I asked them the price, they quoted me $X. I asked again if X was the final price, and they said, no, there are these other charges, etc. When I added up all that, it was only a few dollars more, but if the bill is supposed to be $X, it should be illegal to charge more on hidden fees that the customer is not made aware of until the bill's delivery. That seems like a scam to me!
The message is, don't get caught, not don't do it! If the message were really don't do it, they wouldn't need to hand out punishments, because they'd have set a good example by not overcharging for CD's all those years. I think that any RIAA lawsuit that they win should be deducted immediately from the overcharge on CD's. Once that billion or so $ is reset to 0, then they can start suing people for money. I'd bet that they'd drop all the suits right now if that were the case. How sad! I'll have to go back to simply taping over that little tab in order to rip off music from tapes or some such thing (joke).
'the data in the email will be encrypted, so only someone that can hack our encryption method can read the text of your email.'
So, I could still harvest your address, right? It'd be pretty hard to encrypt email addresses while the messages are being delivered:
POST to 239frj349fu34nf3498f34nf9u834nf9834f....
nah, I don't think that will work.
This movie will be eye candy. Look at the way it's being pitched -- not by the supreme acting ability of it's characters, but by the specs of the render farm used to generate the computer graphics. Even Matrix didn't go that far -- they at least attempted to pass M3 off as a "movie" with a "plot". I definitely enjoyed M3, don't get me wrong, but it was no "usual suspects".
A land Rover can cost you $60,000, if loaded with extras that contribue to it's "poorest MPG of practically any vehicle" rating, which I believe makes it the polar opposite of this underwater thing. Why can't they make a land version that pumps air or something?
I have a great new P2P protocol. You get instant exchange of 10's of CD's at a time. It's called "in person". Generally, you have to provide money to the other person, e-mailing back and forth, etc. They burn you the CD's you want, and then you meet "in person", and exchange the money for their time in producing the CD's for you. It's great!
It's not like they guy sent the email to the FAA, threatening an airliner or something like that. He said, 'Take me off your spam list or else', only after asking nicely tons of times. Is that worth a quarter million dollar fine? NO! Just take the freakin' guy off the email spam list the first time, and it never would have escalated. This is a company that found out just how mad spam can make people... they should consider themselves lucky that he wasn't a REAL nutcase and didn't drive a truck full of nitroglycerine through the front door (very very bad)! Making personal threats of violence is wrong, but i ask this: what should be his recourse after being infuriated by being ignored and spammed countless times?
I must say, I am disppointed that no one is allowed to be legitimately pissed off without getting a lawsuit. Back in the late 1800's, people who were annoying were called out in the street and shot at. I'm not saying that shooting people is the answer, but we should be allowed to vent frustrations so long as they don't include actual, specific assault against someone. Email is not an assault, unless the person says they're gonna hurt you, and you have some reason to believe that they are not kidding around.
Did Mr. Love just have really cool parents, or did he change his name upon being written about in a Slashdot article?
Furthermore, does he have a Ph.D? Because that would make him Dr. Love!
Regular mail "costs" 37 cents, but every day I get a stack of flyers in my mailbox that are metered or something, and they come from multiple sources. Charging for email will generate a lot of revenue, but just like raising the postage stamp rate, it will have 0 effect on spam.
Why would it matter that I could manage rentals offline? Does it really take that long to delete or add a rental when logged on? How many rentals would I really have? Doesn't it make 0.0 % sense to manage rentals offline, assuming that once all those people log back on, there's gonna be a huge jockeying for position in renting whatever they elected to rent the next time they log on?
This shouldn't be that fantastic of an app. If Apple can't just whip this app out in one day, something is seriously wrong.
Now that this is out, do we all have to wait 5 years for businesses to think we've got 5 years' experience with it, or can we convince them that it's similar enough to MS Access, etc that our experience translates? ... btw, anyone else noticed how annoyingly hard it is to convince people that your experience translates over? With a product like this, I should hope it would be obvious.
I have to admit, I have been skeptical of XML for quite a while, but I can see the advantages with a document like this. With Word being such a proprietary tool for so long, this will finally enable people to create "Word" compatible word processors that are actually 100% compatible, since all they have to do is generate an XML document, not some convoluted binary guacamole.
Should the subscription be $9.99 for the one last email, and not for a 3-year license to die?
That's pretty lame.
That's the next desktop right there. Back in 1981 or so, IBM came out with a big, clunky supercomputer called the PC. It was so freaking expensive, but so useful. Now, the desktop machines we have kill that old thing... in 20 years, we'll all have at least 1000 chips on our desks thanks to technology like this.
How does knowing whose friend is whose help me make friends? Really, it is just a complicated, expensive way of saying, "here are some people. Maybe you'll get along, maybe you won't, but your friend knows them."
In reality, if I don't have many friends, I won't have many friends of friends, and if I have a lot of friends, why would I need this service? Therefore, it will end up a network of 1:1 connections.
No one wants to fiddle around with something that small to hold music... it makes much more sense that we will all have digital players that can download music at wi-fi spots, wherever we are. That way, no fiddling with cards, and if the player has the little cards in it, then it can hold x GB of music, which is plenty until you get to the next wi-fi spot, which will have different songs, etc. :-D
I have seen a hardware hard-drive ghoster. You take two drives, hook them up, and the machine copies the data drive onto the empty drive. I imagine this is a nearly foolproof way to ghost a machine, the only trouble being if you have two really different drives and the HHD ghoster doesn't recognize them. Still, I recommend hardware over software.
if I find a bug and I don't tell anyone, isn't that kinda like being a witness to a crime but not telling anyone? Sure, it's not explicitly against the law to NOT tell in some cases, but if I find a bug, as a programmer I am eaten away by it, like the tell-tale heart of Poe's writings. This company needs to wise up and realize that this guy could just as easily have released the information to bad hackers, who would cause harm.
Hmmm... Israeli super-copter stolen... 2000-year history of conflict in the area... HMMM, I wonder why that happened?
Geez! Is the world really that dense? It's the same as when the rival school steals your school's mascot. Everyone knows "who" took it, it's the specifics of the who that are interesting.
That thing looks super-cool... but here's a question. How do you do a wheelie with that? What would it be like to see a motorcross event with all those things in it? Woah!
I could swear that Busta Rhymes had that in the headrests of his Lamborghini (a 2-seater). Still, why not just duct tape the kid's mouths shut? If you want them to stop fighting or whining in the car, maybe having one parent TALK to them would be a cheaper solution than a satellite TV system for the back seat.
They must be only counting distinct instances, because I am certain there are more than 60,000 total viruses (including variations). Doesn't mcAfee's (sp?) virus protector claim to protect against something like 300,000 different viruses?
Are they not counting trojans, worms, and the other ancillary definitions of malicious programs?
I see the bounties as a cheap way to fix the security bugs... microsoft offers $500,000 for someone to find the author of the bug, then M$ gets them in a contract to either fix their software or go to jail... NICE!
Count me in, but here's an interesting question. I have a degree in Fine Art and a number of other experiences that I believe would qualify me for the program. What should really be the criteria for being accepted to the program?