I know this is offtopic, but not only does weather.com suck and doesn't want the business of FF users, but they also don't want the business of people experiencing severe weathe during 7-8pm cst and 10-11pm cst. that's why I go to noaa.gov
That whole firm should be liable for every cent lost. Accepting requests for data via fax without ever seeing original documents is negligent. How can anyone ever expect to avoid identity theft when you have places like this working against you, giving all the important stuff out to any nigerian con artist with scissors a photocopier and a fax machine. I might as well reply to all the emails I get to see if I stand a better chance for a share of the few million each nigerian guy that emails me seems to have.
That Microsoft doesn't really care? Microsoft is a business out to make money and could care less about it's users, other than making a good front to attract more. Anyone that was around on MSN back in the day of Microsoft Chat and the few months thereafter will know what I mean. They pulled the plug on a pay-for chat service and opened up like IRC, they then used the remaining user load to test their software. (lots of splits and lag between links as they tinkered) However people are sheep, and many stayed on because they didn't want to change servers.
It's best to learn to adapt quickly to changes, bugs and exploits when dealing with Microsoft, otherwise find and use something different. One can only hope that sooner or later most people will realize that stuff like FireFox (which works, is safe and is free) is sometimes better than the alternative.
I was addicted to this one game until my old machine died. I can't remember the name of it, but I would play for hours. It was a top down perspective shooter and you basically shot the hell out of these onrushing aliens, trying to stay alive and gain power-ups. If someone knows the name of this game, please let me know.
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I'd also like to know if we can keep track of the DRM "infection". I don't see DRM as being good at all for the consumer. Perhaps in some very small ways, like having control over a hateful email sent to someone else, but no one should be doing such things anyway.
Paypal sucks, anyone who is daft enough to bid on an auction where the seller only accepts paypal would be better off using his money for toilet paper.
I just recently bid on one of these auctions by mistake, forgetting to make sure the seller accepted money orders. I sent an apology to the seller and offered to pay another way after I realized my mistake. After getting a nasty reply I even went further to ask the seller if I could just send him the winning total by money order and he could keep the item and resell it, so I could keep my perfect feedback. I got an even nastier response to that. I looked up the seller's contact info and tried to call, because it usually is much harder for a seller to be nasty when they are not hiding behind their email client. I made the mistake of not blocking my caller id info, so all I got was a couple rings and a click as I was hung up on. I did further research and called a relative of the seller, and asked them if they would have him call me, even if he had to call collect. I made every effort to resolve with this scam artist, but so far I have only got a NPB tagged on my account and no negative feedback yet. Obviously this guy had a problem with giving out a snail mail address for some reason, most likely because the item didn't even exist.
It seems lately the bad auctions are really on the rise. I've been burnt a couple times, but usually when bidding on something not too kosher to begin with (like cd's of bootleg tattoo flash or vinyl cutter images) but I have lost money to at least one auction that seemed real, that didn't have any negative tainting to it at all. (For a $40 nokia cellphone data cable.)
Perhaps it's the newbie factor, every year more people get online and on ebay, and there is always someone willing to exploit the easy prey.
Hmm - shitty rifles to the point that the US Spec Ops used them in the Vietnam era in place of the shitty current issue rifles. Regular forces were not allowed to carry AKs due to the fact that the distinctive sound would draw friendly fire.
I think I'll make a few copies and start giving them away when I get mine. I tried to do that with demolinux but the name demo seems to turn people off.
Wonder if best buy will let me leave a couple on the shelf next to XP. (I hate that they put XP at eye-level and Red Hat and Suse on the bottom shelf)
I sent some money to a guy for a copy of Knoppix and got ripped for 10 bucks. (The guy seemed to be some great Libertarian and all. He now seems to be running for an office in Mississippi. Wouldn't even answer my emails.)
I live in S.E. Kansas and I'm stuck on a 56k connection. I pay $20 a month for 200 hours a month. (You should have seen my bills when I played on IRC)
My only choice of service is Craw-Kan, which is also my phone company. I have done everything to try to get better service, short of paying the $5,000 quoted to me to run service lines and the $1,000 a month to keep them in use.
This company is the biggest monopoly and gets away with it. You can't be late with your payment or be $1 short on your bill. One time they charged me wrong for internet service and it took me two weeks to get it fixed. Plus I still had to overpay or my phone and internet would have been gone. Once they finally admitted their error they just gave me credit.
My only other option is a $600 investment in satellite.
If there is any possibility of something reducing the power of this evil entity, I'm all for it.
What's worse is they don't even know what they are running, I asked them once what they use and got told "Sun Windows or something, I dunno."
Zero tech support as well, I've never gotten a reply to an email. A phone call gets you an answering machine, any time of the day.
Bring on any evils of SBC, hell I'd gargle on Gate's balls just so I could have something beside Craw-Kan.
isn't Kazaa just software that runs on a P2P network? I thought they couldn't kill this kind of sharing. If the company making the client is gone, wouldn't you just download an archived copy and use it, or switch to another client?
Could someone explain a little bit more on this?
I stopped trying to leech long ago. It's just not very fun with a 56k.
Yes - Hockey the only real "major" sport left where the players are not grossly overpaid, and they don't go out every night raping and pillaging. The other sports died when they started paying unskilled kids out of the ghetto millions to come to their team. Baseball committed suicide when the players went on strike.
Really fun to be surfing along and all of the sudden be unable to resolve names.
My ISP seems to not realize that some people want to do more than check local mail and sites. On my old win95 pc it would actually lock up eudora when it tried to pull mail from my nonlocal pop3.
I've been searching for a solution to this for awhile, perhaps using some other dns servers than what my isp specifies.
I wish it embarassed my ISP, but since they don't answer thier email, they probably don't care.
The terraserver was new... I went looking at area 51 and the image data wasn't there. The images for that area seemed to have been replaced with a textured creme colored file....
Not even any more info either. I'm sure all of us would like to examine this browser just to see if it is true.
More info: http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/01/14.html
Even has every media player:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/ 2003/01/13/190872
http://www.esatbtyoungscientist.com/
please mod that down please...
I actually started reading it, thinking there might be a funny ending - but seeing "pouting foreskin puckered" made me realize that someone isn't playing fair...
Is there anywhere we could go to find freedom again?
Could we even buy an island and be out from under anyone's jurisdiction?
I'd be all for a nice happy place like that. I have no skills so I'd have to sign on as janitor but as long as I got my computer and freedom, who cares.
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I know this is offtopic, but not only does weather.com suck and doesn't want the business of FF users, but they also don't want the business of people experiencing severe weathe during 7-8pm cst and 10-11pm cst. that's why I go to noaa.gov
That whole firm should be liable for every cent lost. Accepting requests for data via fax without ever seeing original documents is negligent. How can anyone ever expect to avoid identity theft when you have places like this working against you, giving all the important stuff out to any nigerian con artist with scissors a photocopier and a fax machine. I might as well reply to all the emails I get to see if I stand a better chance for a share of the few million each nigerian guy that emails me seems to have.
It's best to learn to adapt quickly to changes, bugs and exploits when dealing with Microsoft, otherwise find and use something different. One can only hope that sooner or later most people will realize that stuff like FireFox (which works, is safe and is free) is sometimes better than the alternative.
thank you! beats the hell out of the crack I was smoking
I was addicted to this one game until my old machine died. I can't remember the name of it, but I would play for hours. It was a top down perspective shooter and you basically shot the hell out of these onrushing aliens, trying to stay alive and gain power-ups. If someone knows the name of this game, please let me know.
Be sure to put on your foil hat, as Jim Berkland is a frequent coast to coast guest
I'd also like to know if we can keep track of the DRM "infection". I don't see DRM as being good at all for the consumer. Perhaps in some very small ways, like having control over a hateful email sent to someone else, but no one should be doing such things anyway.
Paypal sucks, anyone who is daft enough to bid on an auction where the seller only accepts paypal would be better off using his money for toilet paper.
I just recently bid on one of these auctions by mistake, forgetting to make sure the seller accepted money orders. I sent an apology to the seller and offered to pay another way after I realized my mistake. After getting a nasty reply I even went further to ask the seller if I could just send him the winning total by money order and he could keep the item and resell it, so I could keep my perfect feedback. I got an even nastier response to that. I looked up the seller's contact info and tried to call, because it usually is much harder for a seller to be nasty when they are not hiding behind their email client. I made the mistake of not blocking my caller id info, so all I got was a couple rings and a click as I was hung up on. I did further research and called a relative of the seller, and asked them if they would have him call me, even if he had to call collect. I made every effort to resolve with this scam artist, but so far I have only got a NPB tagged on my account and no negative feedback yet. Obviously this guy had a problem with giving out a snail mail address for some reason, most likely because the item didn't even exist.
It seems lately the bad auctions are really on the rise. I've been burnt a couple times, but usually when bidding on something not too kosher to begin with (like cd's of bootleg tattoo flash or vinyl cutter images) but I have lost money to at least one auction that seemed real, that didn't have any negative tainting to it at all. (For a $40 nokia cellphone data cable.)
Perhaps it's the newbie factor, every year more people get online and on ebay, and there is always someone willing to exploit the easy prey.
I think I'll make a few copies and start giving them away when I get mine. I tried to do that with demolinux but the name demo seems to turn people off.
Wonder if best buy will let me leave a couple on the shelf next to XP. (I hate that they put XP at eye-level and Red Hat and Suse on the bottom shelf)
(The guy seemed to be some great Libertarian and all. He now seems to be running for an office in Mississippi. Wouldn't even answer my emails.)
Anyone willing to mail me a copy? (Please?)
My only choice of service is Craw-Kan, which is also my phone company. I have done everything to try to get better service, short of paying the $5,000 quoted to me to run service lines and the $1,000 a month to keep them in use.
This company is the biggest monopoly and gets away with it. You can't be late with your payment or be $1 short on your bill. One time they charged me wrong for internet service and it took me two weeks to get it fixed. Plus I still had to overpay or my phone and internet would have been gone. Once they finally admitted their error they just gave me credit.
My only other option is a $600 investment in satellite.
If there is any possibility of something reducing the power of this evil entity, I'm all for it.
What's worse is they don't even know what they are running, I asked them once what they use and got told "Sun Windows or something, I dunno."
Zero tech support as well, I've never gotten a reply to an email. A phone call gets you an answering machine, any time of the day.
Bring on any evils of SBC, hell I'd gargle on Gate's balls just so I could have something beside Craw-Kan.
Sorry for the rant.
just as strange as brewing beer in a washing machine.
Or maybe they enjoy raping and pillaging.
Could someone explain a little bit more on this?
I stopped trying to leech long ago. It's just not very fun with a 56k.
The other sports died when they started paying unskilled kids out of the ghetto millions to come to their team.
Baseball committed suicide when the players went on strike.
Yes I will burn Karma for this.
UGH but imagine the interface on that machine...
My ISP seems to not realize that some people want to do more than check local mail and sites. On my old win95 pc it would actually lock up eudora when it tried to pull mail from my nonlocal pop3.
I've been searching for a solution to this for awhile, perhaps using some other dns servers than what my isp specifies.
I wish it embarassed my ISP, but since they don't answer thier email, they probably don't care.
Maybe they just hadn't posted them yet.
Not even any more info either. I'm sure all of us would like to examine this browser just to see if it is true.
More info: http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/01/14.html/ 2003/01/13/190872
Even has every media player: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives
http://www.esatbtyoungscientist.com/
Of course I'd buy the book after my eyes start to get burn-in.....
please mod that down please... I actually started reading it, thinking there might be a funny ending - but seeing "pouting foreskin puckered" made me realize that someone isn't playing fair...
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Is there anywhere we could go to find freedom again?
Could we even buy an island and be out from under anyone's jurisdiction?
I'd be all for a nice happy place like that. I have no skills so I'd have to sign on as janitor but as long as I got my computer and freedom, who cares.
I own a car - but I don't go randomly running over people or property.
I own serveral fireamrs, but I have never killed anyone or anyting with them. (Except for some out of date Coca Cola)
I own a camera, but I don't go kidnap little girls and make kiddie porn
I own several knives but I have never cut anyone but myself with them...
Yet if I own a computer, a cd burner, cd-r discs and have an internet connection I am automatically a music pirate? (Or worse?!)