I know a bunch of ISP's tried to inject ads and various other things into the content of their paying customers. At times without informing them, at others while informing them will as obtuse terms as possible.
However, I do remember free dialup ISP's that used the ad-model. I fail to see why it would end up if court if the service was known to be provided gratis based on an ads model?
Actually, I'd be fairly happy with "free, as in use" with perhaps some injected google-ads or something of the sort on the http stream (not other ports/procols, of course, since that could break stuff).
You'd probably have to block or severely limit P2P/torrents as well in many cases, but it would be great for those that need quick access to check some information online.
More or less what I figured. The actual scenes from "Hello, Dolly" weren't that long, so while I suppose they could have recreated them in 3d, having the originals adds a weird sense of realism/contrast to the whole thing.
One of things I found somewhat odd in the movie was the use of the 3d "animated" people VS the use of "real" people. Many of the advertisements used real people, as did the little video that Wall-E liked to watch. However, other parts used animated characters, and the actually active characters in the movie were animated.
Was this a shortcut to save time, or was there some deeper point to this?
In the last few months I've seen numerous driver improvements come out. In the last year or two I've seen TONS
A few years ago, there was a lot of hardware I had that simply didn't work. Cardreaders, webcams, and various run-of-the-mill stuff was a major chore.
Those started to trickle in slowly but increasingly within the last year. A lot of them run better in 'nix now than windows.
I was still stuck with running workarounds like "ndiswrapper" for my broadcomm wireless card until a few months ago. But with the newer wireless drivers and some recent updates, suddenly the mainstream kernel driver works like a charm. No more ndiswrapper for my laptop.
Seriously, not everything works in linux, but a lot of stuff does, and a lot more stuff does these days (at an increasing rate of release/compatibility)
A law that prohibits any negative information on a job recommendation would clearly be in violation of the 1st amendment
I've heard that there is something akin to this in Canadian law. I have no idea, however, why you would ever use an employer for a reference if you performed poorly under them. I suppose if your future employer wanted to know where you've been working for the last 1-2 years, that could lead to a call.
Maybe there's some form of check/balance system? Almost any employer could tar and feather even a very good former employee, simply by stating the 2% bad out of 98% good. Not untrue, but still misleading.
Never had to look into it myself though, most of my former employers are decent enough to provide good references.
I wasn't the one that wrote it, however my understanding is that it wasn't a real letter, but an amusing fabrication. As it's been circulating on the net for quite a long time, I'd imagine that it would have gotten back to somebody at the company for which the supposed sender was employed.
Back in the day eBay was actually pretty a good place for laptops, or at least parts and accessories. But you're right, now it's crap. If you buy one, hope you don't get a P-P-P-P-Powerbook:-)
Had a similar issue with paypal where my complaint was put in on day 45 (item arrived very late, but also turned out to be crap... advertised as silver but actually a rusted POS).
Paypal was happy to inform me that while *they* will only refund within 45 days, Visa will do so within - I believe it was - 128 days, and a Visa chargeback goes right to the seller, with some extra bad points added by Paypal:-)
As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and me during our commission of duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time.
Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to your employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" as it is explained to you for the hundredth time.
You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will.
You wander around the building all day, shiftlessly seeking fault in others. You have a sharp dressed, useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle.
Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation; however, I have a few parting thoughts:
When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation as I have consistently performed my duties and even more. The most you can say to hurt me is, "I prefer not to comment." To keep you honest, I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.
I have all the passwords to every account on the system and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I will publish your "Favorites," which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not viewed favorably by the university administrations.
When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your mother's b-day," you neglected to mention that you were going to take nude pictures of yourself in the mirror. Then, like the techno-moron you are, you forgot to erase them. Suffice it to say, I have never seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle. I assure you that those photos are being kept in safe places pending your authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (And, for once, would you please try to use spellcheck? I hate correcting your mistakes.)
I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody and all of your twisted little repugnant obsessions will become public knowledge. Never f*ck with your systems administrator, Mr. Baker! They know what you do with all that free time!
The sysadmin that's enough of an asshole to get himself canned in this way (and in many cases, it's expected that sysadmins be somewhat antisocial, so you need exception jerkdome) is enough of an asshole to build tools-for-revenge [tm] into the system when the time comes, or spy on his boss.
There's a joke letter that's circulated sometime about a *good* sysadmin being fired by a bad boss. Many of us chuckle over it but there is some truth to the extent that you must trust your admins. I'll see if I can post it in a reply to avoid slashdotting the parent site(s).
It's just not that easy for a sysadmin, especially a major one. For myself, I've got passwords, SSH-keys, and many other access points everywhere in my company. It's not because I want to screw with them, but because they tend to call me at all sorts of different times and I never know if I'll need secure access to the server.
So, routing rules from home. Public SSH keys on various border-servers with my USB-drive having the private keys, etc. They're all used for doing my job, and if I'm fired (not sure why I would be though) I'll just move on to the next one without tainting my career and doing something stupid to burn bridges. However, I could see a *bad* sysadmin using these same tools and more to entrench himself so deeply that you'd almost have to rebuild the entire infrastructure from scratch to find all the back-doors.
If this guy was a real dick (but a clever+smart one), knew it, knew he was going to be canned, and prepared for it... then how are you going to know that your authentication methods, your binaries, or even your kernels haven't been messed with in some way? MD5 sums only go so far when you have hundreds of systems tied together.
Any get one used? Or get a fast PC, and an emulator? I played through the PS1 version of FF9 entirely on an emulator, sometimes it ran nicer on the PC than the playstation (some glitches at times, but nothing that overly affected gameplay).
I haven't hit the emulation scene for awhile, but I'd imagine in a year or so they'll be chipping well away at the current consoles.
Many people (myself included) pondered the question of "Xbox360 or PS3" based on the games they would want to play. I was sorely tempted to get a PS3 so that I could play FFXIII, but decided that a 360 was a better investment for the time being as I expected I could pick up a PS3 cheaper when the game actually came out.
Seems like I made the right buy, since now I won't need a PS3 at all, plus I'm enjoying "Lost Odyssey" and a bunch of other fun non-RPG's on the 360 at the moment. I just feel sorry for those that paid for a PS3 in expectation of this game, if I had done so I'd feel a bit gypped right now.
I had an item which I was bidding on, but got a bit too pricey for me. About a week later, it popped up again in a second-chance, offer, so I snagged it.
Now, apparently the second-chance offer was a scan wherein somebody hacked the seller's account and was trying to get people to pay with an alternate email address. However, I paid through the proper channels (pay by paypal button) etc and the money went to the *correct* seller's account.
Of course, about an hour or two later the seller's account was temporary closed, and the auction removed. So I called the seller, who indicated that his ebay account had been hacked. I pointed out that I had paid to *his* (not the hacker's) paypal account, which was not hacked, and he offered to refund my money.
2 days later, no refund
So I had to go through hell with a bunch of the morons at paypal (who will thoroughly disclaim that they work with the same company, though ebay owns them now), pointing out that *EBAY* had closed the auction due to the hacked account. They told me that I could only file a 'did not receive' or 'not as expected' claim, but if I filed did not receive and then something arrived (even if it was a load of bricks), I could not later put in a "not-as-expected" claim. I also couldn't put in a "did not receive" claim yet because I had to give the seller time to send the item (which came from a bad listing, go figure).
So time goes by, and finally after days of calling them, they put the damn dispute in. Another several weeks I spent waiting while the seller simply ignored the dispute and didn't respond at all, and then it went in my favor. I got my money back - actually, less than my money back, did you know that on both a purchase and refund Visa will service-charge your ass for changing currencies, that's another story though - and was able to look laptop shopping *outside* of ebay.
The sad thing, that seller's account is still active, and he's happily still selling laptops. I couldn't even leave negative feedback because the auction I had been screwed on had been taken down by ebay.
So maybe the seller's account wasn't hacked, so he didn't commit fraud that way. He sure as hell did by keeping my money though, and forcing me to fight to get it back.
What does that tell me? Ebay, and paypal, support fraud, and they support fraudulent sellers. Screw them.
Guns, alcohol, and many others can be a regulated or restricted market. There are age-limits, and various others (permits required, restrictions against owning a firearm, etc) which makes the whole thing rather complicated. When your business is general-auctions, some things are best left to the specialists.
Most probably wouldn't, but I'll bet that they would be really *really* *REALLY* fricking surprised, because the likelyhood that the courts would grant such a motion to anyone but a powerful corp (or somebody with a lot of clout+money) is probably about 1/1000000%
I do feel somewhat better to have this clarified though, but I would like to know whom these *experts* are (if the name mediasentry pops up I'll be rather ill).
Not disagreeing. I just get annoyed by (most) peoples assumptions that it can never apply to men. I've seen quite a few violent relationships where the abuser was a women, its very difficult for the man to get taken seriously in that case.
Yup. The abuse reports against men are terribly skewed. First of all, in many places it's really not considered manly to have your ass kicked by a woman, so it goes unreported due to embarrassment, etc.
Also, I've known many cases where guys have been getting beaten up by women, but bringing it up with authorities has them being the ones that get in trouble when the female in question claims she's the one being abused.
I know many guys who are also afraid to defend themselves, for fear of causing the female damage and thus being considered an abuser, and other who have been attacked with household weapons (blunt objects, kitchen knives, etc).
I have some experience with this myself... as I walked into a police station with a black eye and a split lip, and ended up having to clear myself after the girl in question claimed I had been violent (despite no physical signs of trauma on her part).
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I know a bunch of ISP's tried to inject ads and various other things into the content of their paying customers. At times without informing them, at others while informing them will as obtuse terms as possible.
However, I do remember free dialup ISP's that used the ad-model. I fail to see why it would end up if court if the service was known to be provided gratis based on an ads model?
Actually, I'd be fairly happy with "free, as in use" with perhaps some injected google-ads or something of the sort on the http stream (not other ports/procols, of course, since that could break stuff).
You'd probably have to block or severely limit P2P/torrents as well in many cases, but it would be great for those that need quick access to check some information online.
More or less what I figured. The actual scenes from "Hello, Dolly" weren't that long, so while I suppose they could have recreated them in 3d, having the originals adds a weird sense of realism/contrast to the whole thing.
One of things I found somewhat odd in the movie was the use of the 3d "animated" people VS the use of "real" people. Many of the advertisements used real people, as did the little video that Wall-E liked to watch. However, other parts used animated characters, and the actually active characters in the movie were animated.
Was this a shortcut to save time, or was there some deeper point to this?
That or they just have a whole whackload of accounts left over from the last time it was compromised.
In the last few months I've seen numerous driver improvements come out. In the last year or two I've seen TONS
A few years ago, there was a lot of hardware I had that simply didn't work. Cardreaders, webcams, and various run-of-the-mill stuff was a major chore.
Those started to trickle in slowly but increasingly within the last year. A lot of them run better in 'nix now than windows.
I was still stuck with running workarounds like "ndiswrapper" for my broadcomm wireless card until a few months ago. But with the newer wireless drivers and some recent updates, suddenly the mainstream kernel driver works like a charm. No more ndiswrapper for my laptop.
Seriously, not everything works in linux, but a lot of stuff does, and a lot more stuff does these days (at an increasing rate of release/compatibility)
The link you sent earlier says near the top:
Availability: Discontinued
Might be that they haven't updated their catalog in awhile, or that you just can't order them directly except through a distributor.
No, but I'd be damn wary of voting in somebody on his promises, when he's already shown little inclination to stick to said promises.
Remember, campaign promises are pretty much just words. What happens if Obama gets voted in as president and just becomes the next GWB?
A law that prohibits any negative information on a job recommendation would clearly be in violation of the 1st amendment
I've heard that there is something akin to this in Canadian law. I have no idea, however, why you would ever use an employer for a reference if you performed poorly under them. I suppose if your future employer wanted to know where you've been working for the last 1-2 years, that could lead to a call.
Maybe there's some form of check/balance system? Almost any employer could tar and feather even a very good former employee, simply by stating the 2% bad out of 98% good. Not untrue, but still misleading.
Never had to look into it myself though, most of my former employers are decent enough to provide good references.
I wasn't the one that wrote it, however my understanding is that it wasn't a real letter, but an amusing fabrication. As it's been circulating on the net for quite a long time, I'd imagine that it would have gotten back to somebody at the company for which the supposed sender was employed.
Back in the day eBay was actually pretty a good place for laptops, or at least parts and accessories. But you're right, now it's crap. If you buy one, hope you don't get a P-P-P-P-Powerbook :-)
Had a similar issue with paypal where my complaint was put in on day 45 (item arrived very late, but also turned out to be crap... advertised as silver but actually a rusted POS).
Paypal was happy to inform me that while *they* will only refund within 45 days, Visa will do so within - I believe it was - 128 days, and a Visa chargeback goes right to the seller, with some extra bad points added by Paypal :-)
Here it is...
Dear Mr. Baker,
As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and me during our commission of duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time.
Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to your employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" as it is explained to you for the hundredth time.
You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will.
You wander around the building all day, shiftlessly seeking fault in others. You have a sharp dressed, useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle.
Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation; however, I have a few parting thoughts:
When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation as I have consistently performed my duties and even more. The most you can say to hurt me is, "I prefer not to comment." To keep you honest, I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.
I have all the passwords to every account on the system and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I will publish your "Favorites," which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not viewed favorably by the university administrations.
When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your mother's b-day," you neglected to mention that you were going to take nude pictures of yourself in the mirror. Then, like the techno-moron you are, you forgot to erase them. Suffice it to say, I have never seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle. I assure you that those photos are being kept in safe places pending your authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (And, for once, would you please try to use spellcheck? I hate correcting your mistakes.)
I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody and all of your twisted little repugnant obsessions will become public knowledge. Never f*ck with your systems administrator, Mr. Baker! They know what you do with all that free time!
Sincerely
David Blocker
Network Administrator
The sysadmin that's enough of an asshole to get himself canned in this way (and in many cases, it's expected that sysadmins be somewhat antisocial, so you need exception jerkdome) is enough of an asshole to build tools-for-revenge [tm] into the system when the time comes, or spy on his boss.
There's a joke letter that's circulated sometime about a *good* sysadmin being fired by a bad boss. Many of us chuckle over it but there is some truth to the extent that you must trust your admins. I'll see if I can post it in a reply to avoid slashdotting the parent site(s).
It's just not that easy for a sysadmin, especially a major one. For myself, I've got passwords, SSH-keys, and many other access points everywhere in my company. It's not because I want to screw with them, but because they tend to call me at all sorts of different times and I never know if I'll need secure access to the server.
So, routing rules from home. Public SSH keys on various border-servers with my USB-drive having the private keys, etc. They're all used for doing my job, and if I'm fired (not sure why I would be though) I'll just move on to the next one without tainting my career and doing something stupid to burn bridges. However, I could see a *bad* sysadmin using these same tools and more to entrench himself so deeply that you'd almost have to rebuild the entire infrastructure from scratch to find all the back-doors.
If this guy was a real dick (but a clever+smart one), knew it, knew he was going to be canned, and prepared for it... then how are you going to know that your authentication methods, your binaries, or even your kernels haven't been messed with in some way? MD5 sums only go so far when you have hundreds of systems tied together.
Any get one used? Or get a fast PC, and an emulator? I played through the PS1 version of FF9 entirely on an emulator, sometimes it ran nicer on the PC than the playstation (some glitches at times, but nothing that overly affected gameplay).
I haven't hit the emulation scene for awhile, but I'd imagine in a year or so they'll be chipping well away at the current consoles.
Many people (myself included) pondered the question of "Xbox360 or PS3" based on the games they would want to play. I was sorely tempted to get a PS3 so that I could play FFXIII, but decided that a 360 was a better investment for the time being as I expected I could pick up a PS3 cheaper when the game actually came out.
Seems like I made the right buy, since now I won't need a PS3 at all, plus I'm enjoying "Lost Odyssey" and a bunch of other fun non-RPG's on the 360 at the moment. I just feel sorry for those that paid for a PS3 in expectation of this game, if I had done so I'd feel a bit gypped right now.
OK, so when your music or movies come with an EULA saying "how" (or even whether) you can put them into RAM... then what?
At least I know I'm safe because I run...
AMD?
I had an item which I was bidding on, but got a bit too pricey for me. About a week later, it popped up again in a second-chance, offer, so I snagged it.
Now, apparently the second-chance offer was a scan wherein somebody hacked the seller's account and was trying to get people to pay with an alternate email address. However, I paid through the proper channels (pay by paypal button) etc and the money went to the *correct* seller's account.
Of course, about an hour or two later the seller's account was temporary closed, and the auction removed. So I called the seller, who indicated that his ebay account had been hacked. I pointed out that I had paid to *his* (not the hacker's) paypal account, which was not hacked, and he offered to refund my money.
2 days later, no refund
So I had to go through hell with a bunch of the morons at paypal (who will thoroughly disclaim that they work with the same company, though ebay owns them now), pointing out that *EBAY* had closed the auction due to the hacked account. They told me that I could only file a 'did not receive' or 'not as expected' claim, but if I filed did not receive and then something arrived (even if it was a load of bricks), I could not later put in a "not-as-expected" claim. I also couldn't put in a "did not receive" claim yet because I had to give the seller time to send the item (which came from a bad listing, go figure).
So time goes by, and finally after days of calling them, they put the damn dispute in. Another several weeks I spent waiting while the seller simply ignored the dispute and didn't respond at all, and then it went in my favor. I got my money back - actually, less than my money back, did you know that on both a purchase and refund Visa will service-charge your ass for changing currencies, that's another story though - and was able to look laptop shopping *outside* of ebay.
The sad thing, that seller's account is still active, and he's happily still selling laptops. I couldn't even leave negative feedback because the auction I had been screwed on had been taken down by ebay.
So maybe the seller's account wasn't hacked, so he didn't commit fraud that way. He sure as hell did by keeping my money though, and forcing me to fight to get it back.
What does that tell me? Ebay, and paypal, support fraud, and they support fraudulent sellers. Screw them.
Guns, alcohol, and many others can be a regulated or restricted market. There are age-limits, and various others (permits required, restrictions against owning a firearm, etc) which makes the whole thing rather complicated. When your business is general-auctions, some things are best left to the specialists.
Most probably wouldn't, but I'll bet that they would be really *really* *REALLY* fricking surprised, because the likelyhood that the courts would grant such a motion to anyone but a powerful corp (or somebody with a lot of clout+money) is probably about 1/1000000%
I do feel somewhat better to have this clarified though, but I would like to know whom these *experts* are (if the name mediasentry pops up I'll be rather ill).
Not disagreeing. I just get annoyed by (most) peoples assumptions that it can never apply to men. I've seen quite a few violent relationships where the abuser was a women, its very difficult for the man to get taken seriously in that case.
Yup. The abuse reports against men are terribly skewed. First of all, in many places it's really not considered manly to have your ass kicked by a woman, so it goes unreported due to embarrassment, etc.
Also, I've known many cases where guys have been getting beaten up by women, but bringing it up with authorities has them being the ones that get in trouble when the female in question claims she's the one being abused.
I know many guys who are also afraid to defend themselves, for fear of causing the female damage and thus being considered an abuser, and other who have been attacked with household weapons (blunt objects, kitchen knives, etc).
I have some experience with this myself... as I walked into a police station with a black eye and a split lip, and ended up having to clear myself after the girl in question claimed I had been violent (despite no physical signs of trauma on her part).
Why profit? All that would need to be done is:
~/deity@cosmos# make money