...would do better than to give the gift of floppies.
"that cute girl in the IT department," is not going to want IT jewelry that isn't functional. Women don't want to have obsolete technology turned into ear or neck decoration unless it doesn't have sharp edges, looks very cool, or is made by their kid.
Try giving a 256MB USB 2.0 keychain drive instead on a necklace if you want to be popular. Keep the 286s in a box at home to show your grandkids./a little dating advice.
Now other spyware companies know they can bribe Bill Gates, to get on Microsoft's good side. They probably just have to offer to adopt a child in Africa, and Bill the old softie is going to give them "ignore" status.
Shouldn't google get a Redundant -1 mod for this toolbar since you have the Google multifuntion search bar in the corner of every Firefox window anyway?
I for one welcome our Broadband, highspeed Internet overlords.
As a part-time dialup user, I'd like to remind Comcast, Shaw, and Rogers that I can be useful in rounding up other 56Kpbs users to toil in their underground technical support call centers.
You pasted the wrong link, I don't think it's at 51degrees latitude. You have to use the Link link on the right of the picture, not the URL bar's link.
Some cities even are taken at different times of the year. If you look up Regina, SK then the north of the city is taken in the Fall or early Spring when everything is brown, but the south of the city is green in the middle of Summer.
"Twist facts?" Heck, Faux News isn't shy about lying too if it suits them. They know their average viewer is incapable of thinking critically to even notice, and if they did notice the lie, they'd dismiss it.
They perhaps are less trigger happy [and worse at customer support] on eBay Motors. I've known people with minor, or no violations have auctions removed just because they were reported by someone mean looking to cause trouble, or a competitor looking to be mean.
With trained eBay monkies taking only 2 seconds to review a report, it's no wonder they make frequent mistakes.
They remove auctions all of the time. If you report one, there's a better than 50% chance it'll be gone within 24 hours. The problem is many people don't report the scams, because there are so many of them, literally 10s of thousands at a time.
eBay does limitted scam scanning, but clearly as you say it's not enough to clean eBay up.
First of all the word you were looking for is "attributed". Contributed means to give to something.
In theory that could raise the earth's temperature if more IR and other heating radiation makes it to the surface to warm the earth, but there's also a pollution effect known as "global dimming" taking place. This is likely particulate matter from exhaust pipes of all types, and is blocking some solar rays from even hitting the earth.
Global warming is real, and pollution is real. It's a different argument to decide if global warming is good or not {it is not by the way}, but we have to reduce our pollution and carbon emmisions for other reasons besides global warming anyway. Smog, energy waste, extinctions, and global warming are 4 big reasons we have to do our part now to reduce pollution.
Take the bus for a few weeks out of the year if you drive. Bike to work at least twice a week. Turn off the AC at night and open the windows instead. Lobby your local government to build bike paths into all new urban development projects. There are many little things to do that aren't hard, and even though they don't seem like much, they will encourage other people to do their share too. The Greatest Generation took on the Nazis, now we have to take on Waste, or be forever labelled the Wasteful Generation.
I'm a frequent poster on eBay community Boards, and one eBay Pink [employee] once said that when an auction is reported for eBay to review if it's in violation of a rule, they take about "1 or 2 seconds" to look at it before removing it. This is horrible customer service as one removed auction can scare away bidders from a reputable seller, who perhaps has done nothing wrong, and has used a phrase that's either deemed as keyword spamming, or an invitation to trade off of eBay.
eBay seems to think that they'll always have enough new customers to replace those that they royally piss off, but humans aren't even reproducing that fast.
They disagree with "liberal" media outlets, because those outlets don't openly lie and distort the truth in the name of entertainment like Fox News does. They are not always "yes men" for the Bush Administration. These days telling the news or ignoring it [as in World events], is synonymous with "liberal media", and "fair and balanced" is synonymous with "lie through your teeth if it hooks viewers and supports the Bush administration.
The American media is so messed up I was tempted to use a swear word instead of "messed up" [but I'm trying to keep slashdot a family website;-)]. Bill O'Idiot routinely lies, and all you have to do is listen to him speak for 5 minutes to know that, or listen to Al Franken and he'll explain it to you while offering background for the lies.
All Americans don't have to agree with what their media is broadcasting, but if the media is telling them anything other than the facts within context, then Americans are being MISLEAD. The myth of the free press has been exposed many times, and it angers me that more Americans seem upset about what is portrayed as "liberal bias" by right wing spin doctors like Coulter and O'Idiot, instead of the fact that all of their media outlets simply publish White House propaganda verbatim, are lazy, and are corporate whores.
The Press is supposed to be relaying facts, it isn't supposed to be popular entertainment that tries to win over viewers by appealing to the viewer's political biases.
When writing a MEMBER of Parliament, you're more likely to get a response if you don't write anonymously [unless of course you're not from his/her constituency, then you have a better chance writing an anonymous letter.
Please see my Journal for a sample letter to a MP, I wrote one concerning the DMCA for Canada bill.
With the introduction of DMCA legislation in Canada yesterday, and now this in the EU, it brought to my mind a realization that the battle to keep software free, and the right to copy media we own is going to be a lifelong battle. If we win one battle, we haven't won the war, and if we lose a battle like this in the EU it doesn't mean we've lost completely, it just means we have to work even harder to overcome it.
DMCA for Canada is not acceptable Written Friday March 25 2005
Please write your MP on this matter. Use my letter below if you don't want to write your own.
Send your letter for free (no postage necessary when parliament is in session; summer is approaching), to your MP at the following address: [your MP's name] M.P. House of Commons Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Dear Mr. Breitkreuz
To summarize the issues in this letter: 1. Internet Service Providers should not be required to keep extensive logs of private and legal online communications.
2. The government must not stop Canadian citizens from making personal-use copies of their legally purchased software, music, and movie media.
Here is the reasoning:
The purpose of the Copyright Act is to support creativity and innovation in the arts and culture. To design a new Act on the failed and draconian Digital Millenium Copyright Act of the United States of America, would be a disaster for Canadian culture, and innovation. Also our court system could become clogged with law abiding citizens who make personal use copies of their music, software, and movie collections for no personal financial gain. An implementation of the proposed changes to the Copyright Act would unleash another "Gun Registry boondoggle" onto the Canadian people - creating criminals out of law abiding citizens at the expense of Canadian taxpayers.
Internet Service Providers like Sasktel should not be made to keep extensive client usage logs for possible future prosecution by various copyright-based industries. I don't want to pay for that system to be put into effect, and I don't think most people do. The phone companies are not forced by the government to record the content of phone conversations, only police can do that with a proper warrant. ISP logs are going to be equivalent to phone-taps, and that's a violation of my privacy. It's doing the job of the police, and is for the sole benefit of an industry basing its profits on an outdated business model that is no longer realistic for the Canadian government to protect.
It is completely unfair to be paying a levy to artists organizations for purchasing blank CD media to make home-use private copies of legal CD music, and now to also be unable to legally copy the music I've paid for off of Digital Rights Managed CDs. If copying CD music is going to be illegal, why is the government collecting money from the product for an illegal activity? I'm satisfied that the current levy is helping to compensate artists from illegitimate copying, and no new law is required to prevent me and other people from making sensible backups of our legal music, software, and movie collections.
Your representation in the House of Commons on this matter is greatly appreciated by me, and other supporters of personal liberty and innovation in the arts. I look forward to hearing from you.
I've been charging $35/job for co-workers, and $45C a job for other customers. Yes I'm cheap, but I don't promise them to have it done the same night, and they have to bring their computer to me for me to work on it, and it needs the original disks too or I'll ask for a lot more.
Slashdot Mirror
...would do better than to give the gift of floppies.
/a little dating advice.
"that cute girl in the IT department," is not going to want IT jewelry that isn't functional. Women don't want to have obsolete technology turned into ear or neck decoration unless it doesn't have sharp edges, looks very cool, or is made by their kid.
Try giving a 256MB USB 2.0 keychain drive instead on a necklace if you want to be popular. Keep the 286s in a box at home to show your grandkids.
Now other spyware companies know they can bribe Bill Gates, to get on Microsoft's good side. They probably just have to offer to adopt a child in Africa, and Bill the old softie is going to give them "ignore" status.
Shouldn't google get a Redundant -1 mod for this toolbar since you have the Google multifuntion search bar in the corner of every Firefox window anyway?
I smell spyware...
I heard that Red Hat Linux was buying SCO, but it's probably just a rumour too.
" Are you sure you are human?
Does zombie count as human?"
Let me guess, you're running Windows XP without a firewall?
"Man gets $2600 for plaster Jesus"
:-)
Oh I was wondering what Shower Jesus sold for. Thanks
I for one welcome our Broadband, highspeed Internet overlords.
As a part-time dialup user, I'd like to remind Comcast, Shaw, and Rogers that I can be useful in rounding up other 56Kpbs users to toil in their underground technical support call centers.
Long Live BitTorrent!
You pasted the wrong link, I don't think it's at 51degrees latitude. You have to use the Link link on the right of the picture, not the URL bar's link.
4 29&spn=0.031242,0.047808&t=k&hl=en 9 13464
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.163291,-110.846
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=153931&cid=12
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tehran,+iran&ll=36.7 38281,50.712891&spn=18.544922,32.431641&t=k&hl=en
The reason Osama hasn't been found yet is at the link.
Can you help everyone find Flanders Field?
Some cities even are taken at different times of the year. If you look up Regina, SK then the north of the city is taken in the Fall or early Spring when everything is brown, but the south of the city is green in the middle of Summer.
Those wondering why this is extra funny, need to watch Shaun of the Dead, a horror comedy flick from the UK, and on DVD in North America.
Would that be the brain of the computer user, or a head of the hard drive?
"Twist facts?"
Heck, Faux News isn't shy about lying too if it suits them. They know their average viewer is incapable of thinking critically to even notice, and if they did notice the lie, they'd dismiss it.
They perhaps are less trigger happy [and worse at customer support] on eBay Motors.
I've known people with minor, or no violations have auctions removed just because they were reported by someone mean looking to cause trouble, or a competitor looking to be mean.
With trained eBay monkies taking only 2 seconds to review a report, it's no wonder they make frequent mistakes.
Your good fortune so far will make your downfall with them seem even more catastrophic. I feel sorry for you, in a future-tense sort of way.
They remove auctions all of the time. If you report one, there's a better than 50% chance it'll be gone within 24 hours. The problem is many people don't report the scams, because there are so many of them, literally 10s of thousands at a time.
eBay does limitted scam scanning, but clearly as you say it's not enough to clean eBay up.
First of all the word you were looking for is "attributed". Contributed means to give to something.
In theory that could raise the earth's temperature if more IR and other heating radiation makes it to the surface to warm the earth, but there's also a pollution effect known as "global dimming" taking place. This is likely particulate matter from exhaust pipes of all types, and is blocking some solar rays from even hitting the earth.
Global warming is real, and pollution is real. It's a different argument to decide if global warming is good or not {it is not by the way}, but we have to reduce our pollution and carbon emmisions for other reasons besides global warming anyway. Smog, energy waste, extinctions, and global warming are 4 big reasons we have to do our part now to reduce pollution.
Take the bus for a few weeks out of the year if you drive. Bike to work at least twice a week. Turn off the AC at night and open the windows instead. Lobby your local government to build bike paths into all new urban development projects. There are many little things to do that aren't hard, and even though they don't seem like much, they will encourage other people to do their share too. The Greatest Generation took on the Nazis, now we have to take on Waste, or be forever labelled the Wasteful Generation.
I'm a frequent poster on eBay community Boards, and one eBay Pink [employee] once said that when an auction is reported for eBay to review if it's in violation of a rule, they take about "1 or 2 seconds" to look at it before removing it. This is horrible customer service as one removed auction can scare away bidders from a reputable seller, who perhaps has done nothing wrong, and has used a phrase that's either deemed as keyword spamming, or an invitation to trade off of eBay.
eBay seems to think that they'll always have enough new customers to replace those that they royally piss off, but humans aren't even reproducing that fast.
They disagree with "liberal" media outlets, because those outlets don't openly lie and distort the truth in the name of entertainment like Fox News does. They are not always "yes men" for the Bush Administration. These days telling the news or ignoring it [as in World events], is synonymous with "liberal media", and "fair and balanced" is synonymous with "lie through your teeth if it hooks viewers and supports the Bush administration.
;-)]. Bill O'Idiot routinely lies, and all you have to do is listen to him speak for 5 minutes to know that, or listen to Al Franken and he'll explain it to you while offering background for the lies.
The American media is so messed up I was tempted to use a swear word instead of "messed up" [but I'm trying to keep slashdot a family website
All Americans don't have to agree with what their media is broadcasting, but if the media is telling them anything other than the facts within context, then Americans are being MISLEAD. The myth of the free press has been exposed many times, and it angers me that more Americans seem upset about what is portrayed as "liberal bias" by right wing spin doctors like Coulter and O'Idiot, instead of the fact that all of their media outlets simply publish White House propaganda verbatim, are lazy, and are corporate whores.
The Press is supposed to be relaying facts, it isn't supposed to be popular entertainment that tries to win over viewers by appealing to the viewer's political biases.
When writing a MEMBER of Parliament, you're more likely to get a response if you don't write anonymously [unless of course you're not from his/her constituency, then you have a better chance writing an anonymous letter.
Please see my Journal for a sample letter to a MP, I wrote one concerning the DMCA for Canada bill.
Precisely! Quick, somebody do this before Senator Bill Frist or Tom DeLay figure this patent thing out!
Better still, let's patent the process for secretly distributing currency under a desk-like structure, for the purpose of influencing votes.
Then we sue the pants off these lazy and no-good politicians who are in the pocket of big-sleazy-business like the RIAA.
With the introduction of DMCA legislation in Canada yesterday, and now this in the EU, it brought to my mind a realization that the battle to keep software free, and the right to copy media we own is going to be a lifelong battle. If we win one battle, we haven't won the war, and if we lose a battle like this in the EU it doesn't mean we've lost completely, it just means we have to work even harder to overcome it.
DMCA for Canada is not acceptable
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Written Friday March 25 2005
Please write your MP on this matter. Use my letter below if you don't want to write your own.
Send your letter for free (no postage necessary when parliament is in session; summer is approaching), to your MP at the following address:
[your MP's name] M.P.
House of Commons
Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Find their email address, but write by paper mail too. http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/ho
Dear Mr. Breitkreuz
To summarize the issues in this letter:
1. Internet Service Providers should not be required to keep extensive logs of private and legal online communications.
2. The government must not stop Canadian citizens from making personal-use copies of their legally purchased software, music, and movie media.
Background:
http://pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/pda-cpb/reform
Here is the reasoning:
The purpose of the Copyright Act is to support creativity and innovation in the arts and culture. To design a new Act on the failed and draconian Digital Millenium Copyright Act of the United States of America, would be a disaster for Canadian culture, and innovation. Also our court system could become clogged with law abiding citizens who make personal use copies of their music, software, and movie collections for no personal financial gain. An implementation of the proposed changes to the Copyright Act would unleash another "Gun Registry boondoggle" onto the Canadian people - creating criminals out of law abiding citizens at the expense of Canadian taxpayers.
Internet Service Providers like Sasktel should not be made to keep extensive client usage logs for possible future prosecution by various copyright-based industries. I don't want to pay for that system to be put into effect, and I don't think most people do. The phone companies are not forced by the government to record the content of phone conversations, only police can do that with a proper warrant. ISP logs are going to be equivalent to phone-taps, and that's a violation of my privacy. It's doing the job of the police, and is for the sole benefit of an industry basing its profits on an outdated business model that is no longer realistic for the Canadian government to protect.
It is completely unfair to be paying a levy to artists organizations for purchasing blank CD media to make home-use private copies of legal CD music, and now to also be unable to legally copy the music I've paid for off of Digital Rights Managed CDs. If copying CD music is going to be illegal, why is the government collecting money from the product for an illegal activity? I'm satisfied that the current levy is helping to compensate artists from illegitimate copying, and no new law is required to prevent me and other people from making sensible backups of our legal music, software, and movie collections.
Your representation in the House of Commons on this matter is greatly appreciated by me, and other supporters of personal liberty and innovation in the arts. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
my name
I've been charging $35/job for co-workers, and $45C a job for other customers. Yes I'm cheap, but I don't promise them to have it done the same night, and they have to bring their computer to me for me to work on it, and it needs the original disks too or I'll ask for a lot more.