Strangely,
The Same Damn Search on search.msn.com returns much the same results. Mostly online florists, with about.msn.com and encarta.msn.com links thrown in for good measure.
Before you publish the report bashing your competition, at least try to see how your own product compares.
It's substantially more effecient to just throw your statements out to the street on trash day under your coffee grinds.
Coffee grinds? Bah! As a parent, I have two words for you: diaper pail
If someone gets my credit card statement, they damn well deserve it.
I was in the USAF as well. We also had the "powdering" shredder, but OUR SOP was to shred docs, place in the black plastic bag, stop by the Field Maintenance Squadron, sign for a 1-2 gallon container of JP-4, then call Civil Engineering and the Security Police Squadron. We'd all meet at a remote location on base, I'd empty the bags into a steel drum, followed by the JP-4, CE would throw in a radio-controlled incediary thingie, and we'd all retreat 50 yards or so, the cop would make a radio call, and the CE guy pressed the trigger. Big fireball, pillar of flame for 5 minutes, and then walk back up, stir the ash, another gallon of JP-4, and repeat.
One has to wonder how much this was dictated by security requirements, and how much is was just because you could.
David, is that you?
When I got my first admin job (first root password) my boss did something like this. He had open perms (755) on his home dir, then a private dir (700) with a file named.sex
He also had a cron job on another box that checked last-access-time for the.sex file.
My sense of ethic has come along way since then, in part because of the (perfectly reasonable) way he talked to me when I got caught.
DavidH, if you ever read this, thanks again.
"Ever been out in the field and wanted to make a quick wireless link calculation..."
Umm, no. I have; however, been out in the field and wished my cell phone would get a goddamn signal.
Which is why I thought this would make a much better PalmOS app than a DHTXML-whatever applet.
But maybe it's just me
If it could warn us when NBC is about to put on one of its cheesy shows it would be worth it.
That's already done -- the network has agreed to limit crappy shows, they now will only air on days ending in "y"
It's not great news that the patent was issued, but it's not disaster either. If/when Microsoft tried to sue (Rieser? MacOSX? Take your pick) someone for infringing, then the patent is nullified by the courts. Just getting a patent issued to you doesn't mean the story is over.
It's called a representative democracy. If you're a citizen, then talk to your representatives. All of them have email, most of them read and respond to it.
Written letters are a quaint idea too. Do your best not to end up in the "loonies" folder.
I consider the copying of music and other digital media to which I do not own the copyright or to which I have not been given the express permission by the owner of said copyright to be theft.
Just waiting for this to get modded -1:Troll, while
this
and even if you are tired of hearing it, it doesn't make it any less true:
ALL COPYRIGHT = GREED
and copying music is NOT stealing in any sense of the word "stealing"
PERIOD
I should check facts before hitting submit. The fee got a link on the right -- the Sponsored Links section. They did not get a better ranking for a fee.
It doesn't pop-up, blink, animate, or pretend to be legitimate search results or articles.
While google does have paid links on the right, distinct from search results, they also will raise your rank for a fee. A former employer of mine swears by this -- she paid the couple-hundred-dollar fee (IIRC) and now she's the top link for searches in her industry. This has resulted in hundreds of new customer sign-ups, and has already paid for itself in a few month's time.
Big conspiracy, or just a hiccup in what Google calls a beta service?
Let's just click on that link again: Searched news for Overture Yahoo. (BETA) Results 1 - 10 of about 344. Search took 1.59 seconds.
Occam's razor, and all that
For a one-time premium of only US$1,000, I will grant a US$1.5Million policy to anyone who wants one -- NOBODY TURNED DOWN!!
The policy will pay out, in full, to anyone whose species becomes extinct as a result of catastrophic collision with any celestial body.
Some of my competitors will only cover comets, excluding asteroids. Others may cover alien invasions, but exclude comets. I cover any celestial catastrophic event that causes the extinction of your species, and I pay cash!
If one can sue over copyright infringment based of a reppetitive set of tones, what is to stop someone from generating millions of tonal combintations with a computer copyrighting the lot of them and suing every "artist" that ends up duplicating them?
Slashdot Mirror
the people who write for Slate have nothing to do with Microsoft's search engine.
Riiiiight. And the people who report for CNN have nothing to do with (and are completely impartial to) AOL
C'mon, this is hardly tinfoil-hat kind of stuff.
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Strangely, The Same Damn Search on search.msn.com returns much the same results. Mostly online florists, with about.msn.com and encarta.msn.com links thrown in for good measure.
Before you publish the report bashing your competition, at least try to see how your own product compares.
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Hey! You got a permit for that?
Wait a minute, you're not with ConEd...
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I smell a hoax - and CNN fell for it.
CNN fell for the hoax, and all the pranksters had to do was issue a press release
Those wacky kids, I tell ya.
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Microsoft says something about it too
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It's substantially more effecient to just throw your statements out to the street on trash day under your coffee grinds.
Coffee grinds? Bah! As a parent, I have two words for you:
diaper pail
If someone gets my credit card statement, they damn well deserve it.
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I was in the USAF as well. We also had the "powdering" shredder, but OUR SOP was to shred docs, place in the black plastic bag, stop by the Field Maintenance Squadron, sign for a 1-2 gallon container of JP-4, then call Civil Engineering and the Security Police Squadron. We'd all meet at a remote location on base, I'd empty the bags into a steel drum, followed by the JP-4, CE would throw in a radio-controlled incediary thingie, and we'd all retreat 50 yards or so, the cop would make a radio call, and the CE guy pressed the trigger. Big fireball, pillar of flame for 5 minutes, and then walk back up, stir the ash, another gallon of JP-4, and repeat.
One has to wonder how much this was dictated by security requirements, and how much is was just because you could.
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David, is that you? .sex .sex file.
When I got my first admin job (first root password) my boss did something like this. He had open perms (755) on his home dir, then a private dir (700) with a file named
He also had a cron job on another box that checked last-access-time for the
My sense of ethic has come along way since then, in part because of the (perfectly reasonable) way he talked to me when I got caught.
DavidH, if you ever read this, thanks again.
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"Ever been out in the field and wanted to make a quick wireless link calculation..."
Umm, no. I have; however, been out in the field and wished my cell phone would get a goddamn signal.
Which is why I thought this would make a much better PalmOS app than a DHTXML-whatever applet.
But maybe it's just me
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If it could warn us when NBC is about to put on one of its cheesy shows it would be worth it.
That's already done -- the network has agreed to limit crappy shows, they now will only air on days ending in "y"
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It's not great news that the patent was issued, but it's not disaster either. If/when Microsoft tried to sue (Rieser? MacOSX? Take your pick) someone for infringing, then the patent is nullified by the courts.
Just getting a patent issued to you doesn't mean the story is over.
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It's called a representative democracy. If you're a citizen, then talk to your representatives. All of them have email, most of them read and respond to it. Written letters are a quaint idea too.
Do your best not to end up in the "loonies" folder.
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HTH, HAND
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Just waiting for this to get modded -1:Troll, while this gets modded +1:Insightful
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I should check facts before hitting submit. The fee got a link on the right -- the Sponsored Links section. They did not get a better ranking for a fee.
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It doesn't pop-up, blink, animate, or pretend to be legitimate search results or articles.
While google does have paid links on the right, distinct from search results, they also will raise your rank for a fee. A former employer of mine swears by this -- she paid the couple-hundred-dollar fee (IIRC) and now she's the top link for searches in her industry. This has resulted in hundreds of new customer sign-ups, and has already paid for itself in a few month's time.
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Big conspiracy, or just a hiccup in what Google calls a beta service?
Let's just click on that link again:
Searched news for Overture Yahoo. (BETA)
Results 1 - 10 of about 344. Search took 1.59 seconds.
Occam's razor, and all that
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Looking at the thumbnail for this pic I can't help but think "OMG! It's destroying San Francisco!" :-)
That's nothing. Take a look at the Stealth Fighter materializing from the deck!
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Or just wait 2 minutes, and let the slashdot community help you out.
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Business Plan.
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For a one-time premium of only US$1,000, I will grant a US$1.5Million policy to anyone who wants one -- NOBODY TURNED DOWN!!
The policy will pay out, in full, to anyone whose species becomes extinct as a result of catastrophic collision with any celestial body.
Some of my competitors will only cover comets, excluding asteroids. Others may cover alien invasions, but exclude comets. I cover any celestial catastrophic event that causes the extinction of your species, and I pay cash!
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Note to self -- gotta play more poker with this guy.
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Bah, I'd rather see more well-done short segments, like the unbelievably funny Apartment hunters short, rendered in Quake.
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If one can sue over copyright infringment based of a reppetitive set of tones, what is to stop someone from generating millions of tonal combintations with a computer copyrighting the lot of them and suing every "artist" that ends up duplicating them?
Oh, sure. Next you'll be telling me that someone can just copyright all possible Phone Numbers?
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