You're mad because they asked for a drivers license? What, they wouldn't take a state ID instead? If you don't have that either, then please tell me how you manage to do anything in life, including writing the check or getting the credit card you used to buy your fancy computer. Anyway, try going back now and get a Free dish. With no contract, if you prefer (buy the dish at the store and get the price reimbursed on your bill over the next 12 months).
With anything that requires a credit check, a contract, and/or a monthly bill, the most suspicious thing you can do is (1) not have ID, and (2) instead of "I left it at home, I'll be right back", you say "What, you need ID? I don't have one. Can't you be a nice salesman and sell it to me anyway, pleeeeese? Oh, and I don't have a social security card, but here's his, um er, my number." Radioshack deals with huge quantities of fraud every day -- nearly daily at every store. Can you really blame them?
Radioshack still provides enough decent hobby equipment to keep their core customer base, but the real money is in consumer electronics: cell phones, dish systems, and the accessories that go with them (chargers, high-end cables). Radioshack was one of the few companies to turn a sizable profit last quarter. They aren't going bankrupt any time soon.
I believe you can already go to an organization called a "library" to do this "borrow" thing you're talking about -- for free. The only thing new that you're proposing is that they mail you the copy.
I also heard about this new place down the street called a "video rental store". I hear it's cool -- I'm gonna go check it out soon.
Well, that's 21 more characters than the macboys have to type (not to mention discovering that your card's module is "es1370" -- "what the hell is a module?").
[I love Linux and have yet to own a Mac, but I can see why the newbies complain]
I've luckily never had it give me that prompt except when I know that I've re-installed SSH from scratch on some computer. That could be an interesting attack, though -- set up a box to ping your target SSH server, and wait to implement the man-in-the-middle until it detects a change in the server's key. Once it does, the users will be expecting a change!
I don't know much about California, but I got a ticket for 80 in a 55 going through a stupid speed trap in Yreka. My fine was only ~$100. Does it vary from location to location?
For what it's worth, it actually shows up on my driving record without listing the speeds as "Speed unsafe for conditions"
That's what I hate about Java's collections API. If it's a list, and if it provides set() et. al., then why can't you use it? "Intentional" runtime errors like UnsupportedOperationException are just as bad as a ClassCastException. Generics is meaningless when classes don't obey their contracts.
A List is a List, and it is modifiable. A new class, UnmodifiableList, which doesn't provide set() or add(), is the only answer.
I first saw it in Scheme, the most beautiful programming language I've ever programmed in, if not the most practical.
Find your grade school teachers and shoot them. He says it's the most beautiful, but probably not the most practical. Or, even though it's not the most practical, it's the most beautiful. Etc...
Sure, in this case the SPAM will be now confirmed to an Address where the investigation can start from and posible removal of the account. But i think the SPAM will contiue without too much trouble.
If spammers have to have valid addresses, then that will straight away eliminate most spam. Spammers operate today assuming (1) it is difficult to get caught or shut down, with open relays and forged addresses, and (2) it is inexpensive, since they don't have to have an ISP or their own servers and lots of bandwidth to handle responses.
But in any case, I plan on combining TMDA with some sort of filtering. Very conservative filtering for whitelisted messages, and strict filtering to sort unwhitelisted messages into not-whitelisted-but-probably-not-spam and almost-definitely-spam folders, both of which could still be overridden by a response to the challenge.
Great, now the mail stops and doesn't get to be delivered.
You could configure it to mangle your From address to a dated or tagged address when sending a challenge. Then the other person's TMDA will send its reply to the dated address and it will automatically get through.
In the unlikely event that a spammer did not forge his address, the challenge was sent from a dated address, and the spammer started spamming the dated address, then at least it would expire in a day or two.
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they keep more on reduced warentee claims from people sending in the all important original sales reciept
At Radioshack, our computers automatically print a second copy of the receipt. It can create some funny situations: for example, a young couple once purchased two cell phones from me that both came with mail-in rebates. The rebate forms are actually printed on the receipt (kill two birds with one stone), so after two forms and the legal mumbo jumbo, each receipt was about three feet long. Add the duplicate copy *and* a third receipt for the store to keep with their credit card signature (that also includes the rebate form... go figure)... the receipt printer ran out of paper.
Why couldn't it be the case that there are intelligent things that are unable to carry on a conversation, or, at any rate, unable to carry on a conversation with creatures like us? (See, for example, [the] French [...])
It's obviously incompatible with our current economy and society, but who's to say it couldn't work? Human owners of IP would be treated like royalty as companies are forced to keep them happy and on-board.
Or else people would be forced to sign lifetime non-compete agreements, which would suck...
This is a conversation about the English language, not nerd jargon.
From m-w.com:
Main Entry: morph
Function: verb
Etymology: short for metamorphose
Date: 1975
transitive senses : to change the form or character of : TRANSFORM intransitive sense : to undergo transformation
Seems to apply perfectly to the grandparent poster's use of the word. Really now, use a proper dictionary!
Here's a link to David Ross's page on the subject. Suprisingly, many of the examples listed there do apply to me, and apply to most of the people I know (if only more of my friends and coworkers would use PGP...).
What, you say? All of those examples are still about hiding things? I thought I said I had nothing to hide!
IMHO, there's a huge difference between having "something to hide" from an FBI investigation -- i.e., committing a crime -- and maintaining your privacy. You don't want everyone to know that you pick your nose and eat it, so when you send a letter to your psycologist about your "problem", you should be allowed and able to protect that message with encryption.
And, of course, if you're transmitting other types of secrets, namely trade secrets for your company, you should be able to encrypt that as well.
Now, you may still ask, so what if the government can view those messages, as long as "real people" can't? My answer to that is that the government is made of "real people" too, and I don't want any old FBI agent to know about me picking my nose. Extend that analogy as necessary for different levels of "secrets", as well as different levels of paranoia about how Big Brother will stretch any information about you to fit His purposes.
I see about half a paragraph about ESPN. The rest is just the usual rant about crappy browsers, and in this case, crappy browsers that aren't even worth ranting about since nobody uses them.
Anyway, they aren't exactly bitching about ESPN either. That's what I was hoping for:-)
Besides, who's to say that those who don't support the war aren't being brainwashed? Afterall, my key point is all news is biased, and if one gets his opinions from what is gleaned from the media, then is that not brainwashing?
I don't think anybody in their right mind can say that mainstream media isn't brainwashing supporters of the war either. I certainly wasn't trying to say that watching the news from home would be less biased than going there yourself, because I believe that no news source can be completely unbiased.
About the military filtering information to soldiers: like I said, that was only my understanding. My roommate's boyfriend just recently completed basic training for the National Guard, and he said that they were not given access to very many or any good news sources about the building tensions in the Middle East. Almost everyone at his camp was or became staunch supporters of Bush and the war. Now maybe they treat you differently in basic training than the real thing, or maybe the National Guard is different... thoughts?
Seeing the war is one thing, but being brainwashed to support the war you're fighting isn't exactly unbiased either. It's my understanding that the military tries very hard to prevent soldiers from assembling any clear picture of the latest world news, so that they will not try to form their own ideas about their cause.
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You're mad because they asked for a drivers license? What, they wouldn't take a state ID instead? If you don't have that either, then please tell me how you manage to do anything in life, including writing the check or getting the credit card you used to buy your fancy computer. Anyway, try going back now and get a Free dish. With no contract, if you prefer (buy the dish at the store and get the price reimbursed on your bill over the next 12 months).
With anything that requires a credit check, a contract, and/or a monthly bill, the most suspicious thing you can do is (1) not have ID, and (2) instead of "I left it at home, I'll be right back", you say "What, you need ID? I don't have one. Can't you be a nice salesman and sell it to me anyway, pleeeeese? Oh, and I don't have a social security card, but here's his, um er, my number." Radioshack deals with huge quantities of fraud every day -- nearly daily at every store. Can you really blame them?
Radioshack still provides enough decent hobby equipment to keep their core customer base, but the real money is in consumer electronics: cell phones, dish systems, and the accessories that go with them (chargers, high-end cables). Radioshack was one of the few companies to turn a sizable profit last quarter. They aren't going bankrupt any time soon.
I believe you can already go to an organization called a "library" to do this "borrow" thing you're talking about -- for free. The only thing new that you're proposing is that they mail you the copy.
I also heard about this new place down the street called a "video rental store". I hear it's cool -- I'm gonna go check it out soon.
If you are that ignorant about Linux, then you shouldn't be using it in the first place.
That's the attitude that keeps ignorant people from using it. Keep it up.
(BTW, I resent your usage of "you", since I'm merely playing devil's advocate)
Well, that's 21 more characters than the macboys have to type (not to mention discovering that your card's module is "es1370" -- "what the hell is a module?").
[I love Linux and have yet to own a Mac, but I can see why the newbies complain]
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I've luckily never had it give me that prompt except when I know that I've re-installed SSH from scratch on some computer. That could be an interesting attack, though -- set up a box to ping your target SSH server, and wait to implement the man-in-the-middle until it detects a change in the server's key. Once it does, the users will be expecting a change!
I don't know much about California, but I got a ticket for 80 in a 55 going through a stupid speed trap in Yreka. My fine was only ~$100. Does it vary from location to location?
For what it's worth, it actually shows up on my driving record without listing the speeds as "Speed unsafe for conditions"
That's what I hate about Java's collections API. If it's a list, and if it provides set() et. al., then why can't you use it? "Intentional" runtime errors like UnsupportedOperationException are just as bad as a ClassCastException. Generics is meaningless when classes don't obey their contracts.
A List is a List, and it is modifiable. A new class, UnmodifiableList, which doesn't provide set() or add(), is the only answer.
The AC below put it better than I could:
when "one of" is left out of "one of, if not the most $X" this nearly always means that is is far from being $X
I first saw it in Scheme, the most beautiful programming language I've ever programmed in, if not the most practical.
Find your grade school teachers and shoot them. He says it's the most beautiful, but probably not the most practical. Or, even though it's not the most practical, it's the most beautiful. Etc...
Sure, in this case the SPAM will be now confirmed to an Address where the investigation can start from and posible removal of the account. But i think the SPAM will contiue without too much trouble.
If spammers have to have valid addresses, then that will straight away eliminate most spam. Spammers operate today assuming (1) it is difficult to get caught or shut down, with open relays and forged addresses, and (2) it is inexpensive, since they don't have to have an ISP or their own servers and lots of bandwidth to handle responses.
But in any case, I plan on combining TMDA with some sort of filtering. Very conservative filtering for whitelisted messages, and strict filtering to sort unwhitelisted messages into not-whitelisted-but-probably-not-spam and almost-definitely-spam folders, both of which could still be overridden by a response to the challenge.
Great, now the mail stops and doesn't get to be delivered.
You could configure it to mangle your From address to a dated or tagged address when sending a challenge. Then the other person's TMDA will send its reply to the dated address and it will automatically get through.
In the unlikely event that a spammer did not forge his address, the challenge was sent from a dated address, and the spammer started spamming the dated address, then at least it would expire in a day or two.
One word: screen
they keep more on reduced warentee claims from people sending in the all important original sales reciept
At Radioshack, our computers automatically print a second copy of the receipt. It can create some funny situations: for example, a young couple once purchased two cell phones from me that both came with mail-in rebates. The rebate forms are actually printed on the receipt (kill two birds with one stone), so after two forms and the legal mumbo jumbo, each receipt was about three feet long. Add the duplicate copy *and* a third receipt for the store to keep with their credit card signature (that also includes the rebate form... go figure)... the receipt printer ran out of paper.
Why couldn't it be the case that there are intelligent things that are unable to carry on a conversation, or, at any rate, unable to carry on a conversation with creatures like us? (See, for example, [the] French [...])
It's obviously incompatible with our current economy and society, but who's to say it couldn't work? Human owners of IP would be treated like royalty as companies are forced to keep them happy and on-board.
Or else people would be forced to sign lifetime non-compete agreements, which would suck...
This is a conversation about the English language, not nerd jargon.
From m-w.com:
Main Entry: morph
Function: verb
Etymology: short for metamorphose
Date: 1975
transitive senses : to change the form or character of : TRANSFORM
intransitive sense : to undergo transformation
Seems to apply perfectly to the grandparent poster's use of the word. Really now, use a proper dictionary!
Ah, good point. It was still March 31 over here when I posted that.
bstark.pp.se is now the property of the United States government. Quite funny.
Is bstark only temporarily gone, or am I missing something?
Here's a link to David Ross's page on the subject. Suprisingly, many of the examples listed there do apply to me, and apply to most of the people I know (if only more of my friends and coworkers would use PGP...).
What, you say? All of those examples are still about hiding things? I thought I said I had nothing to hide!
IMHO, there's a huge difference between having "something to hide" from an FBI investigation -- i.e., committing a crime -- and maintaining your privacy. You don't want everyone to know that you pick your nose and eat it, so when you send a letter to your psycologist about your "problem", you should be allowed and able to protect that message with encryption.
And, of course, if you're transmitting other types of secrets, namely trade secrets for your company, you should be able to encrypt that as well.
Now, you may still ask, so what if the government can view those messages, as long as "real people" can't? My answer to that is that the government is made of "real people" too, and I don't want any old FBI agent to know about me picking my nose. Extend that analogy as necessary for different levels of "secrets", as well as different levels of paranoia about how Big Brother will stretch any information about you to fit His purposes.
I see about half a paragraph about ESPN. The rest is just the usual rant about crappy browsers, and in this case, crappy browsers that aren't even worth ranting about since nobody uses them.
:-)
Anyway, they aren't exactly bitching about ESPN either. That's what I was hoping for
Besides, who's to say that those who don't support the war aren't being brainwashed? Afterall, my key point is all news is biased, and if one gets his opinions from what is gleaned from the media, then is that not brainwashing?
I don't think anybody in their right mind can say that mainstream media isn't brainwashing supporters of the war either. I certainly wasn't trying to say that watching the news from home would be less biased than going there yourself, because I believe that no news source can be completely unbiased.
About the military filtering information to soldiers: like I said, that was only my understanding. My roommate's boyfriend just recently completed basic training for the National Guard, and he said that they were not given access to very many or any good news sources about the building tensions in the Middle East. Almost everyone at his camp was or became staunch supporters of Bush and the war. Now maybe they treat you differently in basic training than the real thing, or maybe the National Guard is different... thoughts?
Seeing the war is one thing, but being brainwashed to support the war you're fighting isn't exactly unbiased either. It's my understanding that the military tries very hard to prevent soldiers from assembling any clear picture of the latest world news, so that they will not try to form their own ideas about their cause.
Unbiased?
:-)
Oh yeah, that wasn't sarcasm at all.
You make some interesting points, but you should get your GByte/Gbit math straight -- some of your comparisons are off by a factor of 8!