Reminds me of having to pay all of my fines in college, I owed about $400 (about 40 tickets in 3 years) or so in parking tickets and had to play them to graduate. My college had all sorts of bizarre rules about when you could park in what lot and frankly I didn't bother to learn them all. I planned to pay in pennies. I'm very glad I didn't because the university's systems were are screwed up and they said my total was $130 including late fees. I asked if they were sure and if I could have a receipt that I was up to date on my fines. They said ok but only up to 10 days ago in case I had any recent tickets. I never found out what happened to all those other tickets.
Moral of the story, I'm not sure.
Suck it up and get a money order, At some point you'll need credit or do you plan on never buying a house, investing in anything and showning up at car dealerships with bags of non-seqential bills?
My IQ tests have always been top percentile- that and $7 gets me a bus ride to work where, no one gives a poop.
(It's funnier if you say it in a Triumph the Dog voice)
Incidentally, I have an old friend with Mensa credentials who is cronically unemployed, so it's not everything, just another tool in the tool box.
It's weird how age is perceived. I am the youngest manager in my IT organization (30's- the others are all 40+). Some of the folks think I am 40 and look really young. I've also encountered others who, not knowing my role in the company, think that I'm a junior programmer or sysadmin until I speak. Salesmen have asked if my boss will be in the presentation. When I inform them that I am the decision maker for project X, they are often surprised. With that in mind I try not to judge other books simply by their covers.
As someone who has to deal with endless user complaints on the subject, I see nothing wrong with public executions for spammers. That way they won't take up valuable jail space.
If the poster thinks that in ten years the line will be taken down, he hasn't a clue. Why would the telcos waste the money to do that (especially those no longer in business)?Alternately, Have you ever looked in the plenum of a building that has been rewired a gazillion times? How many of those get cleaned out. I have seen wires under data center floors that have been there since forever for systems that died with the dinos. Besides, I feel this bears repeating, these are telcos, most of which can't even bill their customers correctly, let alone clean up after themselves.
Unless the poster is suggesting that there will be an open source clean up project. "and then RMS said we should remove the the cables in the following order..."
Sorry, It's been a rough week.
Nachi was the last worm to actually have a noticible impact on our network. MyDoom hardly affected us at all. We don't care what your intentions are, worms are bad.
Is a there such a thing as "good SPAM" or "good junk mail?" Aren't they just all an unneeded drain on our resources? Same goes with these worms. When are these kids going to get it? Breaking into our networks does not help us!
And, yes, we need to have proactive security (for the most part we do) but just because we have an opening is not an invitation to come on in. If I have a crappy lock on the front door of my house it does not give you leave to break in and install a better lock.
My personal favorite is "Job: A Comedy of Justice." Deals with God, the Devil, myths alternate realities. I am surprised it is not more popular (not to discount Heinlein's other works, I just so rarely hear Job come up in conversation)
I thought the headline said anti-privacy. Then when I read what was going on, it appears this is a case of anti-privacy=anti-piracy.
So does piracy=privacy?
(I know that it doesn't, but the xxAA's may have you believe this)
I frankly don't feel guilt using Windows XP(TM) over Linux, let alone OSX. Whatever tool fits the job (or job description), which in the workplace is a combo of XP/2000, IPSO and Solaris. I think people need to keep this in perspective. Do you enjoy using Linux/XP/OSX/a Comodore 64, etc? Does it fit your personal/professional needs? Can you use it?
Sorry but guilt over choice of OS is a little hard for me to grok (and I was raised Catholic).
1600 square ft on a full acre looks like a cottage, Try 4000+ for the "American Dream" hyperbole you are looking for.
That being said $10 is not squat (around here anyways- NYC metro area). If you have a family to support, ramen is not an option. Plenty of fathers and mothers work at jobs they hate becuase of their families.
Let's keep SCO in perspective (I know this is/., butt...) These guys have a series of BS lawsuits, it's not like they are sponsoring terrorism or commiting vast human rights abuses.
Might as well stick with b, if a b/g radio sees a b signal, the speed drops for all. Unless you hard set it to "g-only" then you lose most of your "customers".
Unless you want to put in 2 radios, but this is tip jar.
"We pretend they stole the code, and ask for ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS?" No. 2 "I could have been on Forbes, but you, like an IDIOT, wanted to sue IBM"
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Reminds me of having to pay all of my fines in college, I owed about $400 (about 40 tickets in 3 years) or so in parking tickets and had to play them to graduate. My college had all sorts of bizarre rules about when you could park in what lot and frankly I didn't bother to learn them all. I planned to pay in pennies. I'm very glad I didn't because the university's systems were are screwed up and they said my total was $130 including late fees. I asked if they were sure and if I could have a receipt that I was up to date on my fines. They said ok but only up to 10 days ago in case I had any recent tickets. I never found out what happened to all those other tickets. Moral of the story, I'm not sure. Suck it up and get a money order, At some point you'll need credit or do you plan on never buying a house, investing in anything and showning up at car dealerships with bags of non-seqential bills?
Exxxxxxcelent!
Anyone else think her stole 700 billion Icelandic Krona?
It would be great if there were fewer errors on slashdot, or maybe folks need to be less pedantic.
Where are you hiring? What skills do you seek? Heck, what droids do you seek?
You have enough mod points to hit 99% of the posts?!? Whoa!
My IQ tests have always been top percentile- that and $7 gets me a bus ride to work where, no one gives a poop. (It's funnier if you say it in a Triumph the Dog voice) Incidentally, I have an old friend with Mensa credentials who is cronically unemployed, so it's not everything, just another tool in the tool box.
It's weird how age is perceived. I am the youngest manager in my IT organization (30's- the others are all 40+). Some of the folks think I am 40 and look really young. I've also encountered others who, not knowing my role in the company, think that I'm a junior programmer or sysadmin until I speak. Salesmen have asked if my boss will be in the presentation. When I inform them that I am the decision maker for project X, they are often surprised. With that in mind I try not to judge other books simply by their covers.
As anyone who's seen Team America knows, it costs $1.05
"Freedom costs a buck-O-five"
It doesn't even cost that. The executed prisoner's family is billed for the bullet, burial and other costs.
As someone who has to deal with endless user complaints on the subject, I see nothing wrong with public executions for spammers. That way they won't take up valuable jail space.
Good analogy (Time=money) except you can't afford a yacht on $300k/year.
If the poster thinks that in ten years the line will be taken down, he hasn't a clue. Why would the telcos waste the money to do that (especially those no longer in business)?Alternately, Have you ever looked in the plenum of a building that has been rewired a gazillion times? How many of those get cleaned out. I have seen wires under data center floors that have been there since forever for systems that died with the dinos. Besides, I feel this bears repeating, these are telcos, most of which can't even bill their customers correctly, let alone clean up after themselves. Unless the poster is suggesting that there will be an open source clean up project. "and then RMS said we should remove the the cables in the following order..." Sorry, It's been a rough week.
I'd vote pointless art project.
Must be the after lunch lull, but I read this as guns are the only way to protect or fair use rights.
Forget Legolas, I want to be Sauron.
I wonder how long before someone has a "trainer" that let's you do just that.
But Uranus was found to hold proprietary SCO property.
Nachi was the last worm to actually have a noticible impact on our network. MyDoom hardly affected us at all. We don't care what your intentions are, worms are bad.
Is a there such a thing as "good SPAM" or "good junk mail?" Aren't they just all an unneeded drain on our resources? Same goes with these worms. When are these kids going to get it? Breaking into our networks does not help us!
And, yes, we need to have proactive security (for the most part we do) but just because we have an opening is not an invitation to come on in. If I have a crappy lock on the front door of my house it does not give you leave to break in and install a better lock.
(\rant) Now I feel better.
My personal favorite is "Job: A Comedy of Justice." Deals with God, the Devil, myths alternate realities. I am surprised it is not more popular (not to discount Heinlein's other works, I just so rarely hear Job come up in conversation)
I thought the headline said anti-privacy. Then when I read what was going on, it appears this is a case of anti-privacy=anti-piracy. So does piracy=privacy? (I know that it doesn't, but the xxAA's may have you believe this)
I frankly don't feel guilt using Windows XP(TM) over Linux, let alone OSX. Whatever tool fits the job (or job description), which in the workplace is a combo of XP/2000, IPSO and Solaris. I think people need to keep this in perspective. Do you enjoy using Linux/XP/OSX/a Comodore 64, etc? Does it fit your personal/professional needs? Can you use it? Sorry but guilt over choice of OS is a little hard for me to grok (and I was raised Catholic).
Oh man! Just when I though BSD was dead. Or maybe that was -BSD or was it +bsd ?
1600 square ft on a full acre looks like a cottage, Try 4000+ for the "American Dream" hyperbole you are looking for.
/., butt...) These guys have a series of BS lawsuits, it's not like they are sponsoring terrorism or commiting vast human rights abuses.
That being said $10 is not squat (around here anyways- NYC metro area). If you have a family to support, ramen is not an option. Plenty of fathers and mothers work at jobs they hate becuase of their families.
Let's keep SCO in perspective (I know this is
Might as well stick with b, if a b/g radio sees a b signal, the speed drops for all. Unless you hard set it to "g-only" then you lose most of your "customers".
Unless you want to put in 2 radios, but this is tip jar.
Is SCO's board Chaired by Dr. Evil?
"We pretend they stole the code, and ask for ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS?"
No. 2 "I could have been on Forbes, but you, like an IDIOT, wanted to sue IBM"