I got a specialized Nigerian scam email from Lagos a few days ago, tailored to a vehicle I have for sale on my personal webpage. I'm currently in negotiations with the other party, hopefully for some amusing outcome.
I also forwarded the initial email, and website log [I got a visit from Nigeria to my page minutes before the email], to phonebusters.com in Canada [RCMP] who handle this kind of crime.
"I think this is an example of copyrights doing a good thing for innovation."
I don't think so Tim. It's an example of the opposite, because something new and innovative was invented, but because it wasn't invented by the right person, it will be killed instead of adopted. Just when you and school children thought it was safe to learn where Uzbekistan is, too...
"But every organism that ever lived shares *some* common ancestor with every other organism, if evolution is correct."
Not necessarily. There could have been different beginnings to life all over the earth, and those life forms wouldn't have had to come from a previous organism. This is one thing so many anti-evolutionists have a hard time with, because they can't see how "goo" as they like to call it, and turn into a living thing. I guess they don't realize that semen is goo that turns into life under the right circumstances, for instance.
I don't know why you got modded as a troll, since I'd agree that many things I hear on the radio I saw on a blog site sometimes a day before.
They get tips from people who read blogs too, and email them the news. I don't know how else my local radio news station noticed that a reporter in Alabama verbally reported locally there the name of my province as "Sheshwan".
While this "bird dinosaur" may appear to be a sort of "missing link" in the evolution of pre-bird species into birds, this in no way indicates that "evolution" exists. It simply shows that God Intelligently Designed dinosaurs to perform foot donation transplants to now extinct bird species. The birds' incescent preening of their natural feet, drove them to the brink of vanity and demanded the more robust dino feet be transplanted. The species is now extinct because vanity is a sin.
-/OK I had a hard time keeping a straight face while typing that, how do ID supporters manage to lay that BS on the rest of us without cracking up?
I had wondered as a kid why CTV suddenly stopped showing Bab 5. It used to be on right before Star Trek TNG on my CKCK TV station, then poof it was gone, or moved to Saturday afternoon. Then it was on here and there, and I realized they were trying to kill it off. There were times when I felt I couldn't go on, not knowing what was going to happen next on Bab 5, but I sadly got over my addiction and ended up not watching most of the last two seasons since they weren't readily available to me. One of these days I'll have to get ahold of the DVDs and watch the series in its entirety...
Does anyone think that First4Internet Inc will be looking to make input into the new GPL? They are about to become experts at the LGPL thanks to the pending Sony lawsuits in Canada, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere.
I understand the concept of one, but the wording literally means "after death". Latin humour probably... Morte as in "mortal" - can be killed. Rigor Mortis.
I like the comment from the guy that says a boss sounds sick and dying using post mortem instead of AAR.
I got a chance to use Ximian Evolution once in a Linux computer lab several years ago at University, and I was impressed by how much better it was than Outlook Express, and felt a lot like Outlook. I'm not sure how good it is at the advanced calendar sharing that some offices seem to demand these days, but it strikes me as a worthy successor to Outlook.
Although I have a feeling it would never be too popular in Kansas.
"Postmortem" implies "after death". I think they'd like to see the time after the death of Linux migration [unless that happens because everyone has migrated].
IT's probably best to dive into a Linux or any OS migration for users head first, all at once, so everyone in the office has identical migration problems and can assist each other if the official tech support is busy. It's like the choice between staying with paper, or going with computers, that businesses had to make in the '70s, '80s, or '90s. There will be some people who would never bother to learn unless they are tossed into it kicking.
Part of the problem is that recovery CDs for a mass produced computers can't be patched. You end up with the quandry of restoring an insecure system, which you have to put online to update before it gets infected. If someone doesn't have a firewall or NAT, then too bad they are toast again.
Also, if you "fix" something, it's not like it doesn't impact other things. Microsoft's Rollup 1 for SP4 Windows 2000 a few months ago broke the ability to save to floppy disks in Microsoft Office products. They fixed it later with version 2 of rollup 1 for SP4. You think the average person is going to know what all those numbers even mean?
www.secway.fr has Simp which is an easy to use encryption software product for MSN 7. I use it with a friend and it has advantages, but I wouldn't recommend it for everyone since it sometimes causes a few seconds delay in messages arriving.
The trouble is, you have to find the face before you can use it.
Cudos to you from not making a Face Off movie joke. I remember a Slashdot thread several months about about face transplanting, and I couldn't hold it back. Castor Troy made me post it though.
Now you can misplace your MP3 player in your hair.
But really this is a good combo, since glasses have parts going right beside your ear anyway, so it's handy to have your MP3 player on your face protecting your eyes from UV damage, while damaging your ears with music that is too loud.
Despite the emergence of online papers, blogs, and TV content, advertisers persist. They have no other choice but to try. Things like bittorrent and Adblock have taken a chunk out of the effectiveness of advertising, yet these companies still need to tell the consumers that they exist. They are desperate. They can't email everyone without spamming and being looked negatively upon by savvy consumers for doing that.
My rural parents started to get the paper online in the 1990s, and stopped getting the print version because the soonest it could arrive was the afternoon of the same day. People like to read in-depth news, on paper just to give their backs and eyes a break from a computer chair and monitor, but they aren't happy to read the same weird news they read last week online, and the shabby clips from Reuters that are now 24 hours old with no details added.
If they choose to sit in the presence of the noise for hours every day I'm certain it would cause a bit of hearing loss, but chances are in my non-expert opinion, that the damage most adults suffer is from attending a few concerts with insanely loud "music".
I take ear plugs to any concert where I'll be within 50 meters of a speaker, and I've tried wearing an ear plug in one ear and not the other, and after the concert, the difference in sound on either side is profound.
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I got a specialized Nigerian scam email from Lagos a few days ago, tailored to a vehicle I have for sale on my personal webpage. I'm currently in negotiations with the other party, hopefully for some amusing outcome.
I also forwarded the initial email, and website log [I got a visit from Nigeria to my page minutes before the email], to phonebusters.com in Canada [RCMP] who handle this kind of crime.
Nice try, but the Rolling Stones have been promoting Geology's Rock Cycle for decades now.
Now we know the real cause of the tornado that killed the kid-Q's parents! They lived too close to a power generation facility!
[I think it was Q's kid that were killed by a rogue tornado, right?]
New reports indicate that Bush's letter to Condi asking if he could use the washroom, were never intended for publication.
-/I kid.
"I think this is an example of copyrights doing a good thing for innovation."
I don't think so Tim.
It's an example of the opposite, because something new and innovative was invented, but because it wasn't invented by the right person, it will be killed instead of adopted. Just when you and school children thought it was safe to learn where Uzbekistan is, too...
"But every organism that ever lived shares *some* common ancestor with every other organism, if evolution is correct."
Not necessarily. There could have been different beginnings to life all over the earth, and those life forms wouldn't have had to come from a previous organism. This is one thing so many anti-evolutionists have a hard time with, because they can't see how "goo" as they like to call it, and turn into a living thing. I guess they don't realize that semen is goo that turns into life under the right circumstances, for instance.
I don't know why you got modded as a troll, since I'd agree that many things I hear on the radio I saw on a blog site sometimes a day before.
They get tips from people who read blogs too, and email them the news. I don't know how else my local radio news station noticed that a reporter in Alabama verbally reported locally there the name of my province as "Sheshwan".
While this "bird dinosaur" may appear to be a sort of "missing link" in the evolution of pre-bird species into birds, this in no way indicates that "evolution" exists. It simply shows that God Intelligently Designed dinosaurs to perform foot donation transplants to now extinct bird species. The birds' incescent preening of their natural feet, drove them to the brink of vanity and demanded the more robust dino feet be transplanted. The species is now extinct because vanity is a sin.
-/OK I had a hard time keeping a straight face while typing that, how do ID supporters manage to lay that BS on the rest of us without cracking up?
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Did you hear your little brother was born the other day? Quantum Byte was born weighing in at 8 bits and 0 ounces.
And won't it be exciting to own a DVD player that can shake a robot finger at you for playing DVDs without CSS encryption?
"(and through the demise of syndication, "
I had wondered as a kid why CTV suddenly stopped showing Bab 5. It used to be on right before Star Trek TNG on my CKCK TV station, then poof it was gone, or moved to Saturday afternoon. Then it was on here and there, and I realized they were trying to kill it off. There were times when I felt I couldn't go on, not knowing what was going to happen next on Bab 5, but I sadly got over my addiction and ended up not watching most of the last two seasons since they weren't readily available to me. One of these days I'll have to get ahold of the DVDs and watch the series in its entirety...
Does anyone think that First4Internet Inc will be looking to make input into the new GPL? They are about to become experts at the LGPL thanks to the pending Sony lawsuits in Canada, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere.
I understand the concept of one, but the wording literally means "after death". Latin humour probably... Morte as in "mortal" - can be killed. Rigor Mortis.
I like the comment from the guy that says a boss sounds sick and dying using post mortem instead of AAR.
When on Slashdot though, joke like the Romans.
I got a chance to use Ximian Evolution once in a Linux computer lab several years ago at University, and I was impressed by how much better it was than Outlook Express, and felt a lot like Outlook. I'm not sure how good it is at the advanced calendar sharing that some offices seem to demand these days, but it strikes me as a worthy successor to Outlook.
Although I have a feeling it would never be too popular in Kansas.
I'm glad to see that at least an AC picked up on the obvious sarcasm, even if the moderator didn't.
"Postmortem" implies "after death". I think they'd like to see the time after the death of Linux migration [unless that happens because everyone has migrated].
IT's probably best to dive into a Linux or any OS migration for users head first, all at once, so everyone in the office has identical migration problems and can assist each other if the official tech support is busy. It's like the choice between staying with paper, or going with computers, that businesses had to make in the '70s, '80s, or '90s. There will be some people who would never bother to learn unless they are tossed into it kicking.
Part of the problem is that recovery CDs for a mass produced computers can't be patched. You end up with the quandry of restoring an insecure system, which you have to put online to update before it gets infected. If someone doesn't have a firewall or NAT, then too bad they are toast again.
Also, if you "fix" something, it's not like it doesn't impact other things. Microsoft's Rollup 1 for SP4 Windows 2000 a few months ago broke the ability to save to floppy disks in Microsoft Office products. They fixed it later with version 2 of rollup 1 for SP4. You think the average person is going to know what all those numbers even mean?
"Jupiter Research estimates"
That better not include the makers of Xupiter spyware... Otherwise this study is significatnly biased.
www.secway.fr has Simp which is an easy to use encryption software product for MSN 7. I use it with a friend and it has advantages, but I wouldn't recommend it for everyone since it sometimes causes a few seconds delay in messages arriving.
The trouble is, you have to find the face before you can use it.
Cudos to you from not making a Face Off movie joke. I remember a Slashdot thread several months about about face transplanting, and I couldn't hold it back. Castor Troy made me post it though.
Now you can misplace your MP3 player in your hair.
But really this is a good combo, since glasses have parts going right beside your ear anyway, so it's handy to have your MP3 player on your face protecting your eyes from UV damage, while damaging your ears with music that is too loud.
Despite the emergence of online papers, blogs, and TV content, advertisers persist. They have no other choice but to try. Things like bittorrent and Adblock have taken a chunk out of the effectiveness of advertising, yet these companies still need to tell the consumers that they exist. They are desperate. They can't email everyone without spamming and being looked negatively upon by savvy consumers for doing that.
My rural parents started to get the paper online in the 1990s, and stopped getting the print version because the soonest it could arrive was the afternoon of the same day. People like to read in-depth news, on paper just to give their backs and eyes a break from a computer chair and monitor, but they aren't happy to read the same weird news they read last week online, and the shabby clips from Reuters that are now 24 hours old with no details added.
If they choose to sit in the presence of the noise for hours every day I'm certain it would cause a bit of hearing loss, but chances are in my non-expert opinion, that the damage most adults suffer is from attending a few concerts with insanely loud "music".
I take ear plugs to any concert where I'll be within 50 meters of a speaker, and I've tried wearing an ear plug in one ear and not the other, and after the concert, the difference in sound on either side is profound.
... yet oddly enough, Fark was farked today. The said they'd spilled beer on their servers again...
Oops, how did I miss that little fact? Manson eh?