now have additional fees - $10 to get initially, $5 to recharge, have to use it or pay monthly fees - basically a total ripoff.
Did you check your bank/credit union? As long as I have an account in good standing (i.e. positive balance), my CU let's me get debit cards (the VISA ones that can be used anywhere a CC is used) for nothing except the value in the card. I can use it up and get a new one or "re-fill" it. Since the point is I don't want a persistent number with money attached, I get a new one each time.
I think the min is $10 and the max is $500 (and any weird amount in between). Usually, when I want to buy something online, I get one of those. I just used it to get some Shure e3c headphones on Amazon (I had a gift certificate to apply or I would have been over the max on the debit card).
Now, I don't know how they make money on these, or if this is a limited offer, or if it's only for people with a certain balance (but I don't remember seeing that kind of condition on the brochure)... but you may want to check your bank.
Gotta love it when a Republican denies the existence of evolution but wants to go for the space elevator!
Um... what? To whom are you referring? The parent poster said nothing about Republicans or evolution. If you're referring to Reynolds... well, he comes down pretty strongly on the side of evolution (he's castigated the IDers more than a few times) and he's more of a libertarian than a Republican...
So... what the hell did that comment mean? This weird ad hominem is something I'd expect on the Democratic Underground not in a discussion about a space elevator.
Why would you install Mozilla Firefox as root? I have "~/bin" and I put all my 3rd party apps in there. Even in a multiuser system, I would install it as a non-root user in/opt/mozilla or some such location and add users into the correct group.
Ok, maybe if you were installing a deb or rpm or something you'd need to be root. But then the questions arises, why are you installing a file that's in a different format than the official distribution? Yes, some distros bundle their own rpm/deb version, but I doubt you'd need to worry about nefariousness from the major players. AFAIK, Mozilla.org does not distribute Firefox in rpm or deb. Good luck validating against the official MD5/SHA checksums (you do verify...right?).
"Download Weather Bar (linux version) popups" are only a few years away...
And your point is? It would be trivial to clean this up, since any rights it would have would be that of the user under which Firefox is running. Export your bookmarks, and delete your ~/.mozilla directory. Done. Problem fixed. If you're running Firefox as root... well, that's more of a PEBKAC issue.
There is nothing here to replace the things the shuttle can do?
Except for that whole "going to the moon" thing. Which is the point of these craft. The shuttle cannot make it to the moon. It's a matter of weight/fuel. AFAIK, it cannot carry enough fuel to completely escape Earth's gravity to enter orbit around the moon. I don't think it can even carry enough for even a burn-everything-we-got-ballistic type orbit around the moon - plus they then need fuel to escape the moon's gravity and get back to earth.
There is one mainstream publisher (ok, mainstream SF) that has a LARGE catalog of e-books: Baen. In multiple formats: HTML, RTF, Mobipocket, MS Reader (and you can download in all formats or just read it online). And it has no DRM whatsoever. I probably have purchased about 20 books in this way. Books are about $6US for new titles to $4US for old/out-of-print titles. They have started making pre-release editions for those who "just can't wait" (the last in the Belasarius series and the latest Honor Harrington) for about $10US. I actually ordered the Belasarius "Advance Reader Copy" along with the previous books in the series and it cost me $15US for a total of 6 novels (it was a bundled offer). Another thing, they also have a Free Library that has older books available in all the formats of the paid-for ebooks.
Baen doesn't seem to have a problem with non-DRM'd e-books. It must be somewhat successful for them; Bean keeps making new titles available every month. I know they keep getting my business - it's cheaper than Borders. If there is a book/author I really like, then I will purchase the hard-cover/paper-back so Baen will be more likely to continue publishing that author.
It is more like if you have a website and post words on that website. I read your website, and put a link on my page to your page.
This is not like a normal link to a website. A hotlink is when anothers site content is *embedded* into the leecher's site (in this case Fudruckers is the leech). Everytime someone loads this page on Fucruckers, this guy gets his bandwidth being used without attribution. He gets mentioned on the site *only* because his info is in the game. This is more like me making long-distance calls using your phone-line.
River water/garden "analogy" - not cut-n-pasted - I feel stupider for having read it
Seriously, that is the most idiotic thing I have seen for a long time.
Once you become aware that someone is damaging you, you have a right to tell them to stop
Yes, and if I find someone in my house trashing my stuff, I can shoot him, too. Without saying "stop". As soon as the developer figured out what was going on, he did stop it. His way. This guy can do anything he wants with his stuff. If he decides to change the game to gay porn, that's his perogative.
Fuddruckers can sue
Well, yeah, anyone can sue - Fudruckers just wouldn't have a case. Fudruckers basically used content from his site without permission or attribution. This does not fall under any kind of "fair-use" that I know of. If anything, Fudruckers would be the one that gets sued. In civil court - for copyright infringement. (Incidentally, I don't use P2P for music or movies, I use iTunes or buy my CD/DVD from the store. So don't come back with the specious "So P2P is OK, but this isn't?" argument)
Now whether this guy has the right to create a "Burgertime" or not is between him and the company that originally created the game.
You cannot get flood insurance when your propperty is below sea level.
Then how does my friend, who lives in New Orleans, have flood insurance? How could her mortgage holder (the bank) require to get flood insurance? I just talked to her on the phone about 20 mins ago and the first thing out of her mouth was "Thank God for flood insurance..."
Perhaps you meant to say you can't get it as part of a comprehensive homeowners policy when you live on a flood plain. She couldn't. She had to get a seperate flood insurance policy.
Um... the NFL has nothing to do with ticket prices. That's up to the franchise owners of the teams. AFAIK, the NFL provides administrative services, is the standards body (rules of the game, franchise by-laws, player and management conduct), and license owner (franchises, merchandising, broadcast rights, etc..) for the league as a whole.
Remember that the internal clocks run at slightly different rates between hardware vendors.
That's why we have a drift file. As more and more NTP synchs happen the drift file becomes more and more precise. Maybe a couple days or so depending on update frequency (I usually update at 1024 seconds) the clock will eventually converge with the authoritative time server.
I once had two machines that were only sync'd about once a day.
You may want to increase that, if you are concerned about accuracy. IIRC, NTP updates can be set from 2^2 seconds to 2^16 seconds. Unless you have a saturated pipe or very limited bandwidth, there's no reason to limit the updates to once a day.
Yeah, I did a little more looking around and discovered Solder Fumes was not being a GNAA Troll himself. I already attached another post to his to directly apologize to him.
And at the cost of karma, I hope my previous post gets modded down, so I don't cause any confusion by my knee jerk reaction.
Ok, mod me down for flying off the handle. It appears that the GNAA (I still hate the name) *IS* suspected of doing this. I did some more digging. I apologize to you Solder Fumes. I simply assumed you were doing GNAA Trolling yourself.
I don't have any mod points at present, or I'd mod this Troll into oblivion. I suggest everyone else all do a little research on the GNAA Slashdot Troll before you give this any serious replies.
And no I will not post (but I will link) what GNAA stands for. It's repulsive and offensive to me. Solder Fumes, you may think trolling like this is funny, but you do nothing but perpetuate hate and bigotry. I truly hope you were trying to refer to the MPAA/RIAA... but the GNAA Slashdot Troll has been around a long time so I doubt it.
I don't see anything like this in the cursory look at your posting history... so prove me wrong.
Please define "sin" in a self-consistent way without resorting to deity.
First off, you missed an article in that sentence: a deity. Without it, you sound like Madonna:)
The best definition of "sin" I ever saw was in Carpe Jugularum by Terry Prachett. I'm paraphrasing, but I beleive Granny Weatherwax said sin is treating other people as objects. No more, no less. All "sins", whether of a religious basis or not, flow from this one thing. Murder, theft, lying, etc..
And yes, this does happen. It has been videotaped.
References? Can we see the actual videotapes? Please provide links - forum posts don't count as evidence, nor most web-sites, give me an AP or Reuters link, please. Or is this anecdotal?
The button might help. But the button on the phishing site might go off to a bot network that pulls a real picture off the main site and there is no way to tell if thats happening from the bank side of things.
Well, yes, the bank can tell. The MITM (the phisher) computer hasn't been authorised to pull the image. Before you even get to the button on the bank's site, you have to be on a computer you have previously authorised with the bank.
Unfortunately, it's probably a cookie, but it would require a lot more than just going to a phishing site for them to get access. At the least they'd need to compromise your system to get at the cookie info.
A token based two-factor authentication is still a far better method. I would willingly deal with the "inconvienience" of having to keep track of (yet another) token (SecureID, Vasco, etc...) for greater security on my account.
Slashdot Mirror
I love it. He addresses your points (whether he's right or wrong...) and your rebuttal:
Bugger aff. There are worst than Saddam out there.
Brilliant! I'll have to remember that whenever I want to change an argument into emotionally charged rhetoric.
redirecting all 404 traffic to ads
I think someone needs to learn the difference between DNS and HTTP.
404 != "Domain Not Found"
ideagogue
Did you just combine the words pedagogue and ideologue? Because I can't find it in any dictionary. Interestingly, both words seem to fit RMS.
...that one Slashdot article...
./ article about anything?
Eh? That would be news. When has there ever been just one
I just used it to get some Shure e3c headphones on Amazon (I had a gift certificate to apply or I would have been over the max on the debit card).
Oops. I meant the e5c. The e3c are much less expensive (comparatively speaking). Now I just gotta get the custom ear fitting (I have small ears).
now have additional fees - $10 to get initially, $5 to recharge, have to use it or pay monthly fees - basically a total ripoff.
Did you check your bank/credit union? As long as I have an account in good standing (i.e. positive balance), my CU let's me get debit cards (the VISA ones that can be used anywhere a CC is used) for nothing except the value in the card. I can use it up and get a new one or "re-fill" it. Since the point is I don't want a persistent number with money attached, I get a new one each time.
I think the min is $10 and the max is $500 (and any weird amount in between). Usually, when I want to buy something online, I get one of those. I just used it to get some Shure e3c headphones on Amazon (I had a gift certificate to apply or I would have been over the max on the debit card).
Now, I don't know how they make money on these, or if this is a limited offer, or if it's only for people with a certain balance (but I don't remember seeing that kind of condition on the brochure)... but you may want to check your bank.
Gotta love it when a Republican denies the existence of evolution but wants to go for the space elevator!
Um... what? To whom are you referring? The parent poster said nothing about Republicans or evolution. If you're referring to Reynolds... well, he comes down pretty strongly on the side of evolution (he's castigated the IDers more than a few times) and he's more of a libertarian than a Republican...
So... what the hell did that comment mean? This weird ad hominem is something I'd expect on the Democratic Underground not in a discussion about a space elevator.
You install mozilla as root, right?
/opt/mozilla or some such location and add users into the correct group.
Why would you install Mozilla Firefox as root? I have "~/bin" and I put all my 3rd party apps in there. Even in a multiuser system, I would install it as a non-root user in
Ok, maybe if you were installing a deb or rpm or something you'd need to be root. But then the questions arises, why are you installing a file that's in a different format than the official distribution? Yes, some distros bundle their own rpm/deb version, but I doubt you'd need to worry about nefariousness from the major players. AFAIK, Mozilla.org does not distribute Firefox in rpm or deb. Good luck validating against the official MD5/SHA checksums (you do verify...right?).
"Download Weather Bar (linux version) popups" are only a few years away...
And your point is? It would be trivial to clean this up, since any rights it would have would be that of the user under which Firefox is running. Export your bookmarks, and delete your ~/.mozilla directory. Done. Problem fixed. If you're running Firefox as root... well, that's more of a PEBKAC issue.
It is all WHO does it...
I knew it! It all makes a bizaare kind of sense... yes... Perfectly obvious. This is all another sinister plot of the... World Health Organization!
The fiends!
There is nothing here to replace the things the shuttle can do?
Except for that whole "going to the moon" thing. Which is the point of these craft. The shuttle cannot make it to the moon. It's a matter of weight/fuel. AFAIK, it cannot carry enough fuel to completely escape Earth's gravity to enter orbit around the moon. I don't think it can even carry enough for even a burn-everything-we-got-ballistic type orbit around the moon - plus they then need fuel to escape the moon's gravity and get back to earth.
****WOOOOSH*****
There is one mainstream publisher (ok, mainstream SF) that has a LARGE catalog of e-books: Baen. In multiple formats: HTML, RTF, Mobipocket, MS Reader (and you can download in all formats or just read it online). And it has no DRM whatsoever. I probably have purchased about 20 books in this way. Books are about $6US for new titles to $4US for old/out-of-print titles. They have started making pre-release editions for those who "just can't wait" (the last in the Belasarius series and the latest Honor Harrington) for about $10US. I actually ordered the Belasarius "Advance Reader Copy" along with the previous books in the series and it cost me $15US for a total of 6 novels (it was a bundled offer). Another thing, they also have a Free Library that has older books available in all the formats of the paid-for ebooks.
Baen doesn't seem to have a problem with non-DRM'd e-books. It must be somewhat successful for them; Bean keeps making new titles available every month. I know they keep getting my business - it's cheaper than Borders. If there is a book/author I really like, then I will purchase the hard-cover/paper-back so Baen will be more likely to continue publishing that author.
It is more like if you have a website and post words on that website. I read your website, and put a link on my page to your page.
This is not like a normal link to a website. A hotlink is when anothers site content is *embedded* into the leecher's site (in this case Fudruckers is the leech). Everytime someone loads this page on Fucruckers, this guy gets his bandwidth being used without attribution. He gets mentioned on the site *only* because his info is in the game. This is more like me making long-distance calls using your phone-line.
River water/garden "analogy" - not cut-n-pasted - I feel stupider for having read it
Seriously, that is the most idiotic thing I have seen for a long time.
Once you become aware that someone is damaging you, you have a right to tell them to stop
Yes, and if I find someone in my house trashing my stuff, I can shoot him, too. Without saying "stop". As soon as the developer figured out what was going on, he did stop it. His way. This guy can do anything he wants with his stuff. If he decides to change the game to gay porn, that's his perogative.
Fuddruckers can sue
Well, yeah, anyone can sue - Fudruckers just wouldn't have a case. Fudruckers basically used content from his site without permission or attribution. This does not fall under any kind of "fair-use" that I know of. If anything, Fudruckers would be the one that gets sued. In civil court - for copyright infringement. (Incidentally, I don't use P2P for music or movies, I use iTunes or buy my CD/DVD from the store. So don't come back with the specious "So P2P is OK, but this isn't?" argument)
Now whether this guy has the right to create a "Burgertime" or not is between him and the company that originally created the game.
You cannot get flood insurance when your propperty is below sea level.
Then how does my friend, who lives in New Orleans, have flood insurance? How could her mortgage holder (the bank) require to get flood insurance? I just talked to her on the phone about 20 mins ago and the first thing out of her mouth was "Thank God for flood insurance..."
Perhaps you meant to say you can't get it as part of a comprehensive homeowners policy when you live on a flood plain. She couldn't. She had to get a seperate flood insurance policy.
Yeah, it should be "Atom's Death Knell".
It's almost as bad as people finding their "nitch" (AHHH!! It's "niche"!)
look up the price of Chicago Bears tickets
Um... the NFL has nothing to do with ticket prices. That's up to the franchise owners of the teams. AFAIK, the NFL provides administrative services, is the standards body (rules of the game, franchise by-laws, player and management conduct), and license owner (franchises, merchandising, broadcast rights, etc..) for the league as a whole.
... he is a republican...
Right... and the fact that the Democrats were in control of congress when it came up for ratification slipped your mind because..?
Oh, that's right. Just a chance to bash the political party you disagree with.
Remember that the internal clocks run at slightly different rates between hardware vendors.
That's why we have a drift file. As more and more NTP synchs happen the drift file becomes more and more precise. Maybe a couple days or so depending on update frequency (I usually update at 1024 seconds) the clock will eventually converge with the authoritative time server.
I once had two machines that were only sync'd about once a day.
You may want to increase that, if you are concerned about accuracy. IIRC, NTP updates can be set from 2^2 seconds to 2^16 seconds. Unless you have a saturated pipe or very limited bandwidth, there's no reason to limit the updates to once a day.
Yeah, I did a little more looking around and discovered Solder Fumes was not being a GNAA Troll himself. I already attached another post to his to directly apologize to him.
And at the cost of karma, I hope my previous post gets modded down, so I don't cause any confusion by my knee jerk reaction.
Ok, mod me down for flying off the handle. It appears that the GNAA (I still hate the name) *IS* suspected of doing this. I did some more digging. I apologize to you Solder Fumes. I simply assumed you were doing GNAA Trolling yourself.
Sorry.
I don't have any mod points at present, or I'd mod this Troll into oblivion. I suggest everyone else all do a little research on the GNAA Slashdot Troll before you give this any serious replies.
And no I will not post (but I will link) what GNAA stands for. It's repulsive and offensive to me. Solder Fumes, you may think trolling like this is funny, but you do nothing but perpetuate hate and bigotry. I truly hope you were trying to refer to the MPAA/RIAA... but the GNAA Slashdot Troll has been around a long time so I doubt it.
I don't see anything like this in the cursory look at your posting history... so prove me wrong.
Please define "sin" in a self-consistent way without resorting to deity.
:)
First off, you missed an article in that sentence: a deity. Without it, you sound like Madonna
The best definition of "sin" I ever saw was in Carpe Jugularum by Terry Prachett. I'm paraphrasing, but I beleive Granny Weatherwax said sin is treating other people as objects. No more, no less. All "sins", whether of a religious basis or not, flow from this one thing. Murder, theft, lying, etc..
No mod points, sorry. *I* thought it was funny.
And yes, this does happen. It has been videotaped.
References? Can we see the actual videotapes? Please provide links - forum posts don't count as evidence, nor most web-sites, give me an AP or Reuters link, please. Or is this anecdotal?
The button might help. But the button on the phishing site might go off to a bot network that pulls a real picture off the main site and there is no way to tell if thats happening from the bank side of things.
Well, yes, the bank can tell. The MITM (the phisher) computer hasn't been authorised to pull the image. Before you even get to the button on the bank's site, you have to be on a computer you have previously authorised with the bank.
Unfortunately, it's probably a cookie, but it would require a lot more than just going to a phishing site for them to get access. At the least they'd need to compromise your system to get at the cookie info.
A token based two-factor authentication is still a far better method. I would willingly deal with the "inconvienience" of having to keep track of (yet another) token (SecureID, Vasco, etc...) for greater security on my account.