What happens if the guy uninstalls Visio, gets the desired Office components, and reinstalls Visio? Would those components then work with Visio?
What if he hadn't installed Visio in the first place? He should obviously be able to get the Office components he was interested in then. If he subsequently installed Visio without running the activation, would the components work with the unactivated Visio then?
If the answer is yes, then Microsoft is either being an ass about it, or there's an as-yet unacknowledged bug in their validation process.
The "you talk about homosexuals so much, you must be one yourself" argument is pretty much the same as accusing the people behind those anti-smoking TV ads of being closet pack-a-day smokers.
Tin-foil hat wearers + Firehose = the crap articles you're talking about.
Seriously, the Firehose just means that more people with an axe to grind against X will have a chance to mod up article submissions that also grind an axe against X. If you think the Slashdot editors do a poor job of fact-checking the articles they put up, you better believe that the proletariat puts even less effort into the task.
If you're citing Wikipedia, you have to use that infernal IPA to describe the pronunciation. That way nobody can figure out how to pronounce it, regardless of their native language.
Although, once a long time ago, some friends and I were looking for a house to rent while we finished up college. One place, as the landlady was showing us around, she pointed out a small utility closet in the basement that came pre-equipped with shelves and a sink. She suggested that we could use it for hydroponic gardening - and I don't think she had hibiscus in mind;)
Me? I would go up through Alaska, through Russia via the Bering Sea. Cap'n Sig would do most of the work for me on the Northwestern. I would avoid doing a Portland-to-Tokyo route because of the ring-o-fire thingy.
It's amusing that you would mention that, because the first transatlantic telegraph cable (well... the first project - there were a few abortive attempts as well as some attempts that stopped working soon after completion) was in direct competition with a "do it the long way" overland route via Russia that was being built by Western Union. The first long-lasting undersea cable eventually finished the race first in 1866, and the Western Union attempt was abandoned the next year.
I noticed one glaring omission from the statistics listed in the article: what was the rate of unsolved crimes before the cameras were installed? That information would seem to be a requirement for any study concerning the effectiveness of the cameras.
I've been a proponent for quite some time of an "identity clearinghouse" - an independent government-funded organization to which you could optionally submit your current contact information for the purposes of verifying your identity. Credit offerors (banks, CC companies, etc.) would be required by law to check with the clearinghouse before they could open a line of credit for anybody. The process of signing up for the clearinghouse or of changing one's information would have to be done in person at one's local DMV, where in nearly every state they already have computer photo records of everyone who has a license or ID card.
The clearinghouse would take the lender's verification request, determine whether the purported credit applicant was listed in the database, and if not, they would respond that the person isn't listed. The lender could then open the line of credit. If the applicant is listed, then the clearinghouse attempts to contact the applicant using the contact information on record to verify the request, first by phone, then by mail (the applicant could also request only to be contacted by mail, or could request that all verifications be denied until further notice). If the applicant verifies the credit request, then the lender is notified with a simple "yes" and can then open the line of credit. Otherwise, the lender is notified with "no" and is forbidden from offering credit under that application.
Any lender found to have opened a line of credit for a person who refused to verify a credit request would become fully liable for that line of credit. The reporting agencies would be required to remove the credit line from the person's records. Any legal costs incurred would also become the lender's responsibility.
The system would be funded via a fee charged for every verification request.
This wouldn't solve all identity theft problems. For example, if someone steals your credit card, you're still on the hook (at least as much as your credit card issuer doesn't cover). It wouldn't necessarily cover interception of one's mail. But it would make mass ripoffs of PII useless.
It's actually a widely believed fact that Voyager came equipped with more shuttlecraft than photon torpedoes, which is why I was always surprised that they'd waste their torpedoes when they could just fire shuttlecraft at their enemies.
The thing is, Raph's vision of self-policing PVP had worked in MUDs for years. But when you add one part ease-of-play and a quarter million parts WTF BBQ LOL, something bad is bound to happen.
Anyway, the fact he produced a popular MMO with a huge company and team behind his back doesn't mean that if he quit and made his own company, he'll produce something worth a damn.
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What happens if the guy uninstalls Visio, gets the desired Office components, and reinstalls Visio? Would those components then work with Visio?
What if he hadn't installed Visio in the first place? He should obviously be able to get the Office components he was interested in then. If he subsequently installed Visio without running the activation, would the components work with the unactivated Visio then?
If the answer is yes, then Microsoft is either being an ass about it, or there's an as-yet unacknowledged bug in their validation process.
"You talk about smokers so much, you must be one yourself."
The "you talk about homosexuals so much, you must be one yourself" argument is pretty much the same as accusing the people behind those anti-smoking TV ads of being closet pack-a-day smokers.
You would only need to file for the versions that were being infringed.
Tin-foil hat wearers + Firehose = the crap articles you're talking about.
Seriously, the Firehose just means that more people with an axe to grind against X will have a chance to mod up article submissions that also grind an axe against X. If you think the Slashdot editors do a poor job of fact-checking the articles they put up, you better believe that the proletariat puts even less effort into the task.
Yes, but they charge a 20% restocking fee.
Or maybe this. (Assuming the deep link works.)
So what exactly is it that makes them wrong and you right, instead of them maintaining article quality and you trying to grind an axe on Wikipedia?
If we weren't supposed to eat those 4000 animals, they wouldn't taste so good.
If you're citing Wikipedia, you have to use that infernal IPA to describe the pronunciation. That way nobody can figure out how to pronounce it, regardless of their native language.
Indeed it was.
;)
Although, once a long time ago, some friends and I were looking for a house to rent while we finished up college. One place, as the landlady was showing us around, she pointed out a small utility closet in the basement that came pre-equipped with shelves and a sink. She suggested that we could use it for hydroponic gardening - and I don't think she had hibiscus in mind
I guess that'll give the cockroaches someplace to stand.
Me? I would go up through Alaska, through Russia via the Bering Sea. Cap'n Sig would do most of the work for me on the Northwestern. I would avoid doing a Portland-to-Tokyo route because of the ring-o-fire thingy.
It's amusing that you would mention that, because the first transatlantic telegraph cable (well... the first project - there were a few abortive attempts as well as some attempts that stopped working soon after completion) was in direct competition with a "do it the long way" overland route via Russia that was being built by Western Union. The first long-lasting undersea cable eventually finished the race first in 1866, and the Western Union attempt was abandoned the next year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Union_Telegraph_Expedition
It's more like suing the guy who keeps breaking into your house and destroying all your hydroponic gardening equipment.
Well, the non-sequitur Bush-bashing made first post, so in that context, your remark seems perfectly cromulent to me.
Presumably, I would fast forward to the part where it actually gets stolen :P
No, but I might look at the video from the camera that was pointed at the yet-to-be-stolen car that night.
I noticed one glaring omission from the statistics listed in the article: what was the rate of unsolved crimes before the cameras were installed? That information would seem to be a requirement for any study concerning the effectiveness of the cameras.
I've been a proponent for quite some time of an "identity clearinghouse" - an independent government-funded organization to which you could optionally submit your current contact information for the purposes of verifying your identity. Credit offerors (banks, CC companies, etc.) would be required by law to check with the clearinghouse before they could open a line of credit for anybody. The process of signing up for the clearinghouse or of changing one's information would have to be done in person at one's local DMV, where in nearly every state they already have computer photo records of everyone who has a license or ID card.
The clearinghouse would take the lender's verification request, determine whether the purported credit applicant was listed in the database, and if not, they would respond that the person isn't listed. The lender could then open the line of credit. If the applicant is listed, then the clearinghouse attempts to contact the applicant using the contact information on record to verify the request, first by phone, then by mail (the applicant could also request only to be contacted by mail, or could request that all verifications be denied until further notice). If the applicant verifies the credit request, then the lender is notified with a simple "yes" and can then open the line of credit. Otherwise, the lender is notified with "no" and is forbidden from offering credit under that application.
Any lender found to have opened a line of credit for a person who refused to verify a credit request would become fully liable for that line of credit. The reporting agencies would be required to remove the credit line from the person's records. Any legal costs incurred would also become the lender's responsibility.
The system would be funded via a fee charged for every verification request.
This wouldn't solve all identity theft problems. For example, if someone steals your credit card, you're still on the hook (at least as much as your credit card issuer doesn't cover). It wouldn't necessarily cover interception of one's mail. But it would make mass ripoffs of PII useless.
It's actually a widely believed fact that Voyager came equipped with more shuttlecraft than photon torpedoes, which is why I was always surprised that they'd waste their torpedoes when they could just fire shuttlecraft at their enemies.
The thing is, Raph's vision of self-policing PVP had worked in MUDs for years. But when you add one part ease-of-play and a quarter million parts WTF BBQ LOL, something bad is bound to happen.
Anyway, the fact he produced a popular MMO with a huge company and team behind his back doesn't mean that if he quit and made his own company, he'll produce something worth a damn.
Two words: Vanguard.
Oh, wait....
Why bother? As soon as you actually want to eject the core, the controls will become unresponsive anyway.
So.... who's this "Jack Thompson" guy, anyway?
Perhaps they should bring in a similar policy for Oscars acceptance speeches.
Or presidential debates.