Some people use the threat of embarrassment in order to pressure the girl into accepting. I used the threat of certain death by proposing on the roof of an 8-story building.
Ah yes, the threatmantic approach. Works every time.
The people who die in car crashes probably have a better average quality of life and higher average remaining life expectancy than the typical person who dies of flu.
Do you think people who are not in jail are forcing inmates to take or buy those phones? The inmate has to be a willing party in the process so I think sudnshok's rather clever point still stands.
While not exactly an implementation of a throwaway address, you can use plus sign addressing (subaddressing, i.e. name+slashdot@gmail.com) with Google. I use it for every site I sign up on so I can see who gives out my email address so I can filter everything from that alias into the trash.
What are your thoughts on a 25GB cap that costs $2 per GB you go over? Personally, I think that's like saying if you use more than one tank of gas a week you pay double for the rest. I've had months where I burned through 25GB just updating all my games and with nearly every electronic toy in my house wanting or requiring Internet connectivity the usage is just going up.
Who are you using? I've lived in three major Canadian cities and never had trouble finding an ISP with unlimited bandwidth. Hell, even when Shaw had a 20GB limit back in 2000 they only got mad when I downloaded about 250GB in a month. No extra fees, just a sternly worded letter.
Mustafa Fteja??? The letters 'F' and 'T' should never appear next to each other without a vowel separating them, unless it is at the end of a word such as 'draft' or 'theft'.
After reading your comment I must say that's a rather lofty claim. I could probably debunk it further if I spent more than fifteen seconds on it.
I miss the good old days when hacking was considered a good thing. You know, when it meant doing more with less than the bare minimum or just screwing around with your own hardware to use it in unintended ways without pissing anybody off.
Yes, that's the proper course of action to take when something goes wrong: immediately affix blame and fire the person who made a mistake. Let's not take the time to learn from our mistakes and ensure we don't repeat them, just get rid of anyone who is at all imperfect.
This is why you are (probably) not in management and never will be. If you are in management, this is why your employees hate you.
Meanwhile, here in reality... How likely you are to get fired is directly proportional to how public your mistake is or was.
For example, if you make a public mistake on a website everyone's heard of odds are your head will be on the chopping block because investors need to see problems are dealt with swiftly and efficiently. If you just spill coffee on your company-issued laptop you're probably just going to get reprimanded and not allowed to have another one but you keep your job because you only made yourself look bad.
a lot of you are disliking the sequels, and bashing them, because at that point the movie had had become popular in mainstream and everyone was talking about it.
I didn't like the sequels because they tried to add to what I believed was already a complete story and those flashy effects were no longer new and exciting. They didn't rewrite history like Heroes did in later seasons but I figure if they made Neo all-powerful at the end of the first movie there shouldn't have been a lot to work with in the second or third.
The Matrix was a gimmick, albeit an awesome one, and I would probably have the same reaction to a second Avatar or another Tron because gimmicks stop working pretty quickly.
The best advice I ever got was "don't listen to us old guys, do whatever the hell works". My interactions with other hams are only over the air, all CW (Morse code) because you can reach anyone through anything and you get people who genuinely want to communicate, not just rave about this antenna or that transceiver.
I got into ham radio about two years ago and have experienced most of what you said. In fact, I stopped going to the local meetings because the people there were a little too "hardcore" in the belief that their radios would someday save the world. At first I had a laugh about how awkward the whole situation was but then I realized that this hobby is all some of these guys have, it's what defines them as a person, and because it's a dying hobby (or at least very niche) sometimes they get a little too excited when a new person shows interest. Not all hams you'll encounter are attention-starved, there are some great people out there, some just aren't very good with face to face interactions.
I don't understand why people have a problem with this, Wikipedia is for the normal populace -- not the hardcore fans of specific interests.
Wikipedia used to be "the encyclopedia anyone can edit", normal populace and hardcore fans of specific interests alike. Coincidentally, the List of Catgirls article is doing quite well.
Back when Square released the original Final Fantasy on the NES the tile was appropriate because it was their last chance to release a good game before bankruptcy. I think once you hit the fifth or sixth incarnation the "Final" part of the title loses its impact but I can see why they aren't rushing to change the name after having established such a big brand.
You can start a petition if you want, maybe even try boycotting the series, that seems to work... right?
A lot of music that meets those parameters is already legally available for free (if you like the artist, you can give them money directly).
I think you'd certainly cut down on piracy if the music on the radio stayed fresh longer than a bowl of milk in the sun but I hardly think it's what's going to beat piracy. Personally, I like the pay what you want model; piracy may still occur but you get more than enough sales to cover it.
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Some people use the threat of embarrassment in order to pressure the girl into accepting. I used the threat of certain death by proposing on the roof of an 8-story building.
Ah yes, the threatmantic approach. Works every time.
If it gets to the point that a government has and uses a kill switch chances are they won't blink at having to shoot a satellite down.
The people who die in car crashes probably have a better average quality of life and higher average remaining life expectancy than the typical person who dies of flu.
No, I'm quite sure they're still both dead.
Do you think people who are not in jail are forcing inmates to take or buy those phones? The inmate has to be a willing party in the process so I think sudnshok's rather clever point still stands.
While not exactly an implementation of a throwaway address, you can use plus sign addressing (subaddressing, i.e. name+slashdot@gmail.com) with Google. I use it for every site I sign up on so I can see who gives out my email address so I can filter everything from that alias into the trash.
Just for fun, he should write a counter-complaint and see if he's told he's been practicing law without a law degree.
That's how I ended up with a Zune... :(
What are your thoughts on a 25GB cap that costs $2 per GB you go over? Personally, I think that's like saying if you use more than one tank of gas a week you pay double for the rest. I've had months where I burned through 25GB just updating all my games and with nearly every electronic toy in my house wanting or requiring Internet connectivity the usage is just going up.
Who are you using? I've lived in three major Canadian cities and never had trouble finding an ISP with unlimited bandwidth. Hell, even when Shaw had a 20GB limit back in 2000 they only got mad when I downloaded about 250GB in a month. No extra fees, just a sternly worded letter.
Mustafa Fteja??? The letters 'F' and 'T' should never appear next to each other without a vowel separating them, unless it is at the end of a word such as 'draft' or 'theft'.
After reading your comment I must say that's a rather lofty claim. I could probably debunk it further if I spent more than fifteen seconds on it.
If I can't tell I was unfriended on my own odds are I don't care enough about that person anyway.
No, private comments aren't public data.
Slow Scan Television (SSTV).
as opposed to other hacking instances?
I miss the good old days when hacking was considered a good thing. You know, when it meant doing more with less than the bare minimum or just screwing around with your own hardware to use it in unintended ways without pissing anybody off.
Yes, that's the proper course of action to take when something goes wrong: immediately affix blame and fire the person who made a mistake. Let's not take the time to learn from our mistakes and ensure we don't repeat them, just get rid of anyone who is at all imperfect.
This is why you are (probably) not in management and never will be. If you are in management, this is why your employees hate you.
Meanwhile, here in reality... How likely you are to get fired is directly proportional to how public your mistake is or was.
For example, if you make a public mistake on a website everyone's heard of odds are your head will be on the chopping block because investors need to see problems are dealt with swiftly and efficiently. If you just spill coffee on your company-issued laptop you're probably just going to get reprimanded and not allowed to have another one but you keep your job because you only made yourself look bad.
My profile picture is a lolcat. I think my friends will just issue a collective "wtf?" and move on from any ads featuring it.
a lot of you are disliking the sequels, and bashing them, because at that point the movie had had become popular in mainstream and everyone was talking about it.
I didn't like the sequels because they tried to add to what I believed was already a complete story and those flashy effects were no longer new and exciting. They didn't rewrite history like Heroes did in later seasons but I figure if they made Neo all-powerful at the end of the first movie there shouldn't have been a lot to work with in the second or third.
The Matrix was a gimmick, albeit an awesome one, and I would probably have the same reaction to a second Avatar or another Tron because gimmicks stop working pretty quickly.
Good luck effecting that change...
(I swear I'm not trolling, that statement was grammatically correct!)
That'll be difficult. I hear he dies hard.
Computers are just a commodity and excessively boring.
Unless you know how to program them ... /wink
Then they're double-plus boring? ;)
The best advice I ever got was "don't listen to us old guys, do whatever the hell works". My interactions with other hams are only over the air, all CW (Morse code) because you can reach anyone through anything and you get people who genuinely want to communicate, not just rave about this antenna or that transceiver.
I got into ham radio about two years ago and have experienced most of what you said. In fact, I stopped going to the local meetings because the people there were a little too "hardcore" in the belief that their radios would someday save the world. At first I had a laugh about how awkward the whole situation was but then I realized that this hobby is all some of these guys have, it's what defines them as a person, and because it's a dying hobby (or at least very niche) sometimes they get a little too excited when a new person shows interest. Not all hams you'll encounter are attention-starved, there are some great people out there, some just aren't very good with face to face interactions.
I don't understand why people have a problem with this, Wikipedia is for the normal populace -- not the hardcore fans of specific interests.
Wikipedia used to be "the encyclopedia anyone can edit", normal populace and hardcore fans of specific interests alike. Coincidentally, the List of Catgirls article is doing quite well.
I didn't. I was too busy playing Donkey Kong.
Back when Square released the original Final Fantasy on the NES the tile was appropriate because it was their last chance to release a good game before bankruptcy. I think once you hit the fifth or sixth incarnation the "Final" part of the title loses its impact but I can see why they aren't rushing to change the name after having established such a big brand.
You can start a petition if you want, maybe even try boycotting the series, that seems to work... right?
A lot of music that meets those parameters is already legally available for free (if you like the artist, you can give them money directly).
I think you'd certainly cut down on piracy if the music on the radio stayed fresh longer than a bowl of milk in the sun but I hardly think it's what's going to beat piracy. Personally, I like the pay what you want model; piracy may still occur but you get more than enough sales to cover it.