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"Would it really? What is the lifespan on these things in read/write cycle terms?"
They seem overly sensitive to static discharge and I haven't had one yet that has lasted more than 18 months in the field working in dry,carpeted offices. There's often little or nothing metallic in a cube farm to ground to with padded partitions and plastic workstations and I'm not going to crack a case just to ground myself before plugging in a thumbdrive.
Repeat after me kiddies... these are NOT dongles. These are flash drives or thumb drives.
...is reliability. We're currently on our 3rd warranty replacement Seagate drive in my personal machine while the cheap lower capacity Samsung secondary drive has ticked on without a hiccup.
This last time, they replaced the previous 200GB hdd with a 250GB and the fscking bearings went out in the thing barely 8 months after I spent $25 for them to overnight the replacement so that I could get back up and running ASAP.
So all my data is gone in a blink. But wait you say, surely you have backups. I have an older partial backup and the notebook was somewhat recently shadowed thanks to my nimrod spouse who managed not only to toast my image on the server but then played tetris on my PDA until the batteries were depleted and then didn't charge it so I lost all my contacts, databases & spreadsheets that were there.
{insert very long list of personally favourite expletives here}
Thankfully we didn't put Seagates in our server RAID array.
so you are saying that if you tried to click on this link:
http://www.redcross.org/ there would be no way for you to make a donation?
I've said no such thing. When the Red Cross has become aware of people linking to their site in such a way or requesting donations on their behalf they have acted swiftly with e-mail or even a cease and desist type letter.
Why did he not just link to the Red Cross in the first place, they would get money faster and more people would trust them rather than an unknown web-master
Because the RedCross won't let you solicit funds on their behalf or link to them in such a way as to appear to be soliciting funds on their behalf to minimize the potential for scamming.
The Red Cross has an abysmal record of return in terms of percentage of each dollar spent towards actual relief efforts. This has been widely reported in the mainstream press for a number of years and is a matter of public record.
Here in Houston, before the first buses began arriving, the Red Cross knew it didn't have enough supplies on hand to accomodate the number of people who would be arriving yet when large companies turned out to offer assistance in the form of manpower, bottled water & drinks and even food they were turned away. We saw this repeated many many times on our local news even once the tired, hungry people began arriving yet the Red Cross people kept smiling and saying "Send Money."
The people who were able to get out who are staying in hotels here are running out of money but nobody thought of what to do about that. In my immediate community local churches are helping with vouchers and offering the occasional hot meals. I went to a major chain hotel near my home 2 days ago to see if anyone there needed anything and was told by the manager that many of the guests had rooms because the churches were helping to pay for them but had run out of money so had no food. I brought several sacks of non-perishable groceries and when I came back 6 hours later with a major food drop, they were all gone save for 3 bananas and a couple of cookies.
Many individuals like myself are working with the owners of local restaurants who are donating their leftovers each night to some of the hotels. And the Salvation Army has stepped up to the plate with clothing and other donations since many of these people left with very few clothes and personal items of necessity. Where's the Red Cross?
The Red Cross doesn't endorse members of the community taking in or hosting refugees since they cannot "check out the households" they would be going to. Bloody hell, these people barely have the clothes on their back, many have no money and no food and the Red Cross is turning away every potential source of help available to them except themselves. Most people here are showing compassion and saying bugger the Red Cross and taking families into their homes since it could be weeks or months before they're allowed to return home and the Red Cross doesn't seem to have any grip on reality in terms of where these people will live or what they will eat in the interim, nor have they apparently planned for such a contingency.
If you're going to send money, send it to http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/USNSAHome.htm. Sure, the Red Cross is 'there' but at what cost and what miniscule amount of your dollar is actually going to any relief effort rather than to feed that top-heavy organization?
If the FBI, or whomever, wants to go fishing around in my compost heap or worm bin for the output from our shredders (1 a crosscut and 1 a strip cutter) they're welcome to whatever information they can come up with.
After the output goes into the compost heap it's hosed down and makes a nice thick mulch for the layer of food and yard waste beneath it and a base for the layer above it. We've even used the output under weedblock as additional mulch when putting in new flowerbeds where it helps loosen our overly compacted souther clay soil. It breaks down very quickly and the worms love the stuff. Need I say more?
You don't know that "millions disagree" at all. You are making up numbers, taking them from your ass.
I'll type slowly this time in the hopes that you can comprehend this.
If millions have downloaded the program and are running it, they are an extremely silent and invisible miniority, so tiny as to fit on the head of a pin in the grand scheme of things. Of those who have tried the program and ditched it, they did so for whatever reasons. The reason we've seen most often cited are related to the UI.
You can call them liars, fanboys and zealots until you're blue in the face (or until you learn some new words) but that won't change their hearts and minds or their browsers, nor will it make you right and them wrong. It's simply a matter of taste or opinion and has nothing to do with you personally nor your taste in browsers, cars, clothing or anything else. I would have thought your own mummy would have taught you that by now but apparently your self image is so precarious that you need to believe otherwise.
Obviously you aren't capable of reasonable conversation and my estimation of your emotional age as being around 12 seems appropriate given your responses so this is my last response on the subject since I don't take unfair advantage of drunks, dimwits and children.
Of course millions don't disagree. Most people haven't even tried Opera. Quit making up numbers to support your dubious claims.
Of course millions have downloaded Opera. After all, Opera has millions of users. Thanks for making my point for me.
I haven't made any 'points' for you nor have you proven yourself to be any great scholar. You can't even keep your story straight between comments and you don't seem know the difference between a statement of opinion and a lie.
If I feel something superior to what I'm currently using comes along, I'll use it, otherwise I won't be badgered or browbeaten by some 12 year old zealot with a chip on his shoulder and an underdog complex into using a product that I dislike.
Of course millions don't disagree. Most people haven't even tried Opera. Quit making up numbers to support your dubious claims.
Actually, I've known quite a few people over the years who have tried Opera with only 1 or 2 continuing to use it as most loathed it for various reasons. I don't have to make up numbers and you seem to be the only one here making dubious claims.
Downloads.com shows both Opera versions 7.54 and 8.0 as having been downloaded well over 7 MILLION times EACH so there goes your argument regarding the numbers of people who have tried it or perhaps they simply downloaded it and erased it from their drives to inflate the numbers. That must be it.
You can add toolbars, menus, panels, use bookmarlets, User JavaScript, etc. There are lots of ways to add functionality to Opera. For example, this.
With that, I stand corrected, but I still don't see that much in terms of what is available for other browsers that shall remain nameless since the mere mention of them send you into a psychotic frenzy of repetitive drivel and frothing at the mouth.
Again, you are spreading lies and just repeating what some other Firefox fanboy told you.
Honey, I've been doing this for long enough and know enough to form my own opinions. If anyone is guilty of being swayed by those infamous "fanboys" (another of your favourite words) it would have to be you. Do you also go to to athletic events and become a zealot for the underdogs simply to be different?
I don't like Opera for the reasons I've stated although I'm open minded enough to check out new versions when they roll out. That's far more than an apparently be said for you. My computer, my opinion. Get over it.
Thank goodness they don't have call centers like this in prisons.
Actually, in the past, some U.S. companies have used inmate populations for call center grunt labour although I don't believe any financial institutions would have been allowed to. Perhaps they should have. At least the outcomes would have been predictable.
I believe they finally stopped using inmate populations for call center personnel after other forms of abuses began coming to light - such as inmates stalking women whom they'd contacted in the context of their 'job', etc.
Over the past 9 months, I have been issued 3 different mastercard debit cards after mine have appeared on lists faxed to them by Card Services International as having been one of a block of numbers that had been compromised by hackers. Last summer, we weren't notified until many weeks after the event occured and began noticing some unusual charges to our account.
Since our bank is in another state with no branches or ATMs local to us and activating our card requires us to do so in one of their ATMs or at one of their branches only, I can't begin to tell you what a monumental pain in the ass it is each time. The only reason we continue to use the bank is because they offer interest rates that we've not seen matched in our area.
I'm a bit disappointed by the racism in this comments thread to be honest
It has nothing to do with racism, but everything to do with the fact that the legal system is quite different and quite differently enforced than ours here in the west. Does India, Pakistan and other countries have HIPAA or even know what it is much less can the companies where such jobs, and information, has been outsourced to, be held liable in a western court of law for violating these laws? Doubtful.
And then there are the widespread sales of private information as has been reported both here in the states and abroad. Sure, we can outsource the work to a country who pays their workers perhaps 1/10th of what it would cost for the work to be performed by american workers but are the same background checks made and isn't there a greater temptation perhaps to supplement that income through industrial espionage?
Those are the excuses we're given here in the U.S. when they do background and credit checks that indicate that our credit histories may be a bit spotty.
It's got nothing to do with race or location but everything to do with human nature and avarice.
And as for the UI... Opera 8 has a superior UI compared to Firefox. It's simple, easy to use, yet does loads more. It's just more polished. Better.
That would be your opinion and you're entitled to it but millions obviously disagree for a variety of reasons, many of which are cited as the interface and ads.
I tried Opera when it first came out and hated it. Tried it again a while later - still hated it. Tried it recently, still have it on my computer but still hate it and don't see that it has any more functionality than Firefox or Mozilla but manages to distract me more with their bloody ads and trying to find things in what I consider counterintuitive locations. Additionally, I can't see where I can add any functionality through the use of extensions or plug-ins, or remove 'features' that I don't use through same although I can send $$$ to remove those ads.
I neither fear Opera, nor am I uncertain or doubtful of my current dislike of it. That could change in the future as the software matures but for now, I simply don't care for it and evangelizing and telling people how narrow-minded they are for stating such won't win believers or influence friends.
Since you're obviously fond not only of Opera but FUD seems to be the word of the year for you, do you even know what it means? Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt. You seem to attach that to many of your posts leading me to believe that you either don't know what it means or have too limited of an imagination to come up with anything else.
Please find a new catchphrase, that one is as tired and useless as Internet Exploder.
But don't give me the "Opera is cluttered" nonsense, because it's a lie.
It isn't a lie if it's my opinion, which it is. Claiming otherwise is juvenile, an obvious misunderstanding of terminology and a desire to overuse the way kewl term FUD in yet another sentence.
The point of WGA and activation are not to defeat determined pirates, but to let people who unwittingly bought pirated versions know that they did.
Don't think that Microsoft is above getting John Doe warrants for one or two individuals in Bumfuckt, Idaho, Slipittome, Georgia, and Kissyosista, Louisiana, for pirated versions of Windows XP to make a strong point. Let's just call it Operation Sundevil Lite.
Of course, Bubba not only happens to have a pirated version of Winders XP but Mickey$oft Office Perfessional and copies of Deer Hunter, Deer Hunter Avenger, and 20 other redneck favourites on his computer that Mickey$oft kindly informs the BSA about.
The entire purpose of Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft is to allow people to know they have actually recieved a Genuine product and not some product that has a key generated for it.
Right. And that would be why one of the Product Activation keys that we received directly from Mickey$oft in our official Mickey$oft Action Pack (MAPS) was flagged as being either a pirated number or a volume licensing key that was supposedly known to be pirated or in the wild. I don't recall the exact verbiage any longer, only that previous checks on my computer had been without problem.
At the last MS TS2 event I attended I asked one of the speakers about it during one of the sessions and was told to ask him about it again after the session ended and he was downright hostile and had no explanation as to why this had occured. He not only couldn't (wouldn't?) provide any answers but he couldn't seem to get away from me fast enough and, in retrospect, that's probably why he didn't want to address the subject in the open session despite the fact that it was the topic at hand.
I used a keygen recently on my computer and re-ran the Genuine Advantage check and came up clean. I'm half tempted to let our $199 a year MAPs membership expire and just use a keygen instead of doing things the 'genuine' way since that seems to get us nothing more than a pain in the ass and more bullshit from Mickey$oft than my garden can use in a season.
Opera has a far cleaner interface, and the users seem to advocate it even more than firefox users.
That all depends on one's taste and how it's configured. I hate the default Opera interface and find it cluttered and tiresome and that includes the much touted current version. Even after much tweaking I just hate it, especially the bloody distracting ads in the menubar space that won't allow me to pare down the menubar the way that I like to.
OTOH, I mostly like both IE (for those few sites that still doggedly require it) and Firefox's default interfaces and have both configured even more lean and mean with mostly icons and very little text. Others who have used my computer are usually totally lost without the text labels all over the place having never had to rely on the icons themselves and/or just the tooltips.
Opera seems to work well enough but the biggest complaint I seem to see about it concerns the interface and the ads. Maybe they could use the money they get for the 20 or so paid versions they've sold and buy a clue.
What about one of the state or federal agencies allegedly designed to protect us poor working grunts against this type of abuse? They can usually direct you towards some form of free or low cost legal counsel.
Seriously, I would never have dreamed that long hair for men was still an issue after all these years as long as it's kept clean, there are no:ahem: passengers and it doesn't present a workplace hazard.
I have had the unpleasant experience of having to hold a serious discussion with an anti-social and possibly disturbed male subordinate on several occasions on the subject of the use of things like soap and shampoo. Thank God he was too big of a wuss to get any sort of tattoos or piercings because with his poor hygiene he would have ended up with necrotizing fasciitis within a week.
(sorry, I don't have enough middle fingers for my former employer.) that became my boss who started calling me "Jesus" and having one of his lackeys follow suit.
To be sporting, I'll lend you a couple of middle fingers if you'll return the favour for one of my former employers of similar ilk. Yours sounds like a hostile workplace and I feel your pain and suffering.
In most places I'm sure there are also workforce commissions and attorneys who can feel your pain and suffering of working in such a hostile environment. I'd be tempted to introduce myself to them.
Any idea how that kind of modification is viewed in the industry? If an employer noticed/found out, would he/she be likely to think "Wow, what a brainless slut. Why the hell should we hire her as a programmer?", or is it the kind of thing that's just accepted and ignored?
Unless you had the implants done after you started working there, had a pair of size 48 FFFs dropped in or yapped about them to everyone why would they notice, find out or even care?
After working 20 years in I.T. the only girls, or women, we considered brainless sluts were the ones that acted the part and those usually didn't last long enough for us to even learn their names much less care whether they had breast implants, body modifications or anything else.
re: the other body mods, when I got my various tattoos (yes, they're really called that) I didn't pick them out of a book, randomly choose symbols that someone said meant something (I can't help but wonder how many of those popular kanji or tribal symbols really translate into screw u dumbass) that I couldn't personally translate or decipher, get meaningless crap like the grim reaper, somebody's name or gangsta crap a foot in diameter on my neck and my only piercings are the standard small multiple ear piercings.
My tattoos are small and easily covered by short sleeves (except for the one on my ankle that covers a surgical scar), are unobtrusive in design and have personal meaning. The few clients who have seen or noticed them have been surprised and/or amused by them rather than shocked or disgusted.
"The ISPs and datacenters I have dealt with usually take action within 24 hours."
True, when they're within U.S., U.K. or Canadian borders but I'm encountering more and more outside same and finding the sites up long after I've pinged them and discovered that the entire site and apparent 'host' is nothing more than one big phishing hole. Some of the URLs might change slightly but they were all going back to the same motherships albeit with different info.
Complaining to their upstream providers, or APNIC (for example) is like spitting into the wind.
"I'm sure you already know that the only results Google turns up for your bbs is thanks to the archive of the documentary creator Jason Scott, who runs textfiles.com."
Actually, that isn't true for mine. Mine shows up about 21 times depending on the search parameters with only 2 results being from textfiles.com.
Between Jason and Google, many BBSs will live on in archives for an untold number of years.:)
" You've just got to start a reply before logging in to see it."
I'm logged in and I've only begun seeing the code today whenever I respond. My karma is still the same positive it's been for however long I've been on here.
AOL was never a fun, exclusive community. It was merely a clone of an early online service called QuantumLink for Commodore computers where Steve Case was rightfully second banana. Now that was a fun and exclusive community as was CompuServe.
Of course, all good things must end, Steve Case ended up becoming CEO of the newly formed AOL, the clueless were loosed upon an unsuspecting internet and CompuServe was assimilated.
2. Using it as an outlet to meet girls, and it actually worked out.
LOL. I met my husband, another FidoNet sysop in R19 but another city/state via BBSing although that wasn't my goal when I put the BBS up a few years earlier, just a benefit. My husband also happens to be british.:)
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They seem overly sensitive to static discharge and I haven't had one yet that has lasted more than 18 months in the field working in dry,carpeted offices. There's often little or nothing metallic in a cube farm to ground to with padded partitions and plastic workstations and I'm not going to crack a case just to ground myself before plugging in a thumbdrive.
Repeat after me kiddies... these are NOT dongles. These are flash drives or thumb drives.
This last time, they replaced the previous 200GB hdd with a 250GB and the fscking bearings went out in the thing barely 8 months after I spent $25 for them to overnight the replacement so that I could get back up and running ASAP.
So all my data is gone in a blink. But wait you say, surely you have backups. I have an older partial backup and the notebook was somewhat recently shadowed thanks to my nimrod spouse who managed not only to toast my image on the server but then played tetris on my PDA until the batteries were depleted and then didn't charge it so I lost all my contacts, databases & spreadsheets that were there.
{insert very long list of personally favourite expletives here}
Thankfully we didn't put Seagates in our server RAID array.
Here in Houston, before the first buses began arriving, the Red Cross knew it didn't have enough supplies on hand to accomodate the number of people who would be arriving yet when large companies turned out to offer assistance in the form of manpower, bottled water & drinks and even food they were turned away. We saw this repeated many many times on our local news even once the tired, hungry people began arriving yet the Red Cross people kept smiling and saying "Send Money."
The people who were able to get out who are staying in hotels here are running out of money but nobody thought of what to do about that. In my immediate community local churches are helping with vouchers and offering the occasional hot meals. I went to a major chain hotel near my home 2 days ago to see if anyone there needed anything and was told by the manager that many of the guests had rooms because the churches were helping to pay for them but had run out of money so had no food. I brought several sacks of non-perishable groceries and when I came back 6 hours later with a major food drop, they were all gone save for 3 bananas and a couple of cookies.
Many individuals like myself are working with the owners of local restaurants who are donating their leftovers each night to some of the hotels. And the Salvation Army has stepped up to the plate with clothing and other donations since many of these people left with very few clothes and personal items of necessity. Where's the Red Cross?
The Red Cross doesn't endorse members of the community taking in or hosting refugees since they cannot "check out the households" they would be going to. Bloody hell, these people barely have the clothes on their back, many have no money and no food and the Red Cross is turning away every potential source of help available to them except themselves. Most people here are showing compassion and saying bugger the Red Cross and taking families into their homes since it could be weeks or months before they're allowed to return home and the Red Cross doesn't seem to have any grip on reality in terms of where these people will live or what they will eat in the interim, nor have they apparently planned for such a contingency.
If you're going to send money, send it to http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/USNSAHome.htm. Sure, the Red Cross is 'there' but at what cost and what miniscule amount of your dollar is actually going to any relief effort rather than to feed that top-heavy organization?
After the output goes into the compost heap it's hosed down and makes a nice thick mulch for the layer of food and yard waste beneath it and a base for the layer above it. We've even used the output under weedblock as additional mulch when putting in new flowerbeds where it helps loosen our overly compacted souther clay soil. It breaks down very quickly and the worms love the stuff. Need I say more?
Sure, just like transplant patients. Of course, the tradeoff is the much higher rate of serious infection and higher incidence of various cancers.
Personally, as a diabetic, I'll take the insulin.
I'll type slowly this time in the hopes that you can comprehend this.
If millions have downloaded the program and are running it, they are an extremely silent and invisible miniority, so tiny as to fit on the head of a pin in the grand scheme of things. Of those who have tried the program and ditched it, they did so for whatever reasons. The reason we've seen most often cited are related to the UI.
You can call them liars, fanboys and zealots until you're blue in the face (or until you learn some new words) but that won't change their hearts and minds or their browsers, nor will it make you right and them wrong. It's simply a matter of taste or opinion and has nothing to do with you personally nor your taste in browsers, cars, clothing or anything else. I would have thought your own mummy would have taught you that by now but apparently your self image is so precarious that you need to believe otherwise.
Obviously you aren't capable of reasonable conversation and my estimation of your emotional age as being around 12 seems appropriate given your responses so this is my last response on the subject since I don't take unfair advantage of drunks, dimwits and children.
I haven't made any 'points' for you nor have you proven yourself to be any great scholar. You can't even keep your story straight between comments and you don't seem know the difference between a statement of opinion and a lie.
If I feel something superior to what I'm currently using comes along, I'll use it, otherwise I won't be badgered or browbeaten by some 12 year old zealot with a chip on his shoulder and an underdog complex into using a product that I dislike.
Get a life and get over it already.
Actually, I've known quite a few people over the years who have tried Opera with only 1 or 2 continuing to use it as most loathed it for various reasons. I don't have to make up numbers and you seem to be the only one here making dubious claims.
Downloads.com shows both Opera versions 7.54 and 8.0 as having been downloaded well over 7 MILLION times EACH so there goes your argument regarding the numbers of people who have tried it or perhaps they simply downloaded it and erased it from their drives to inflate the numbers. That must be it.
With that, I stand corrected, but I still don't see that much in terms of what is available for other browsers that shall remain nameless since the mere mention of them send you into a psychotic frenzy of repetitive drivel and frothing at the mouth.
Honey, I've been doing this for long enough and know enough to form my own opinions. If anyone is guilty of being swayed by those infamous "fanboys" (another of your favourite words) it would have to be you. Do you also go to to athletic events and become a zealot for the underdogs simply to be different?
I don't like Opera for the reasons I've stated although I'm open minded enough to check out new versions when they roll out. That's far more than an apparently be said for you. My computer, my opinion. Get over it.
Actually, in the past, some U.S. companies have used inmate populations for call center grunt labour although I don't believe any financial institutions would have been allowed to. Perhaps they should have. At least the outcomes would have been predictable.
I believe they finally stopped using inmate populations for call center personnel after other forms of abuses began coming to light - such as inmates stalking women whom they'd contacted in the context of their 'job', etc.
Over the past 9 months, I have been issued 3 different mastercard debit cards after mine have appeared on lists faxed to them by Card Services International as having been one of a block of numbers that had been compromised by hackers. Last summer, we weren't notified until many weeks after the event occured and began noticing some unusual charges to our account.
Since our bank is in another state with no branches or ATMs local to us and activating our card requires us to do so in one of their ATMs or at one of their branches only, I can't begin to tell you what a monumental pain in the ass it is each time. The only reason we continue to use the bank is because they offer interest rates that we've not seen matched in our area.
It has nothing to do with racism, but everything to do with the fact that the legal system is quite different and quite differently enforced than ours here in the west. Does India, Pakistan and other countries have HIPAA or even know what it is much less can the companies where such jobs, and information, has been outsourced to, be held liable in a western court of law for violating these laws? Doubtful.
And then there are the widespread sales of private information as has been reported both here in the states and abroad. Sure, we can outsource the work to a country who pays their workers perhaps 1/10th of what it would cost for the work to be performed by american workers but are the same background checks made and isn't there a greater temptation perhaps to supplement that income through industrial espionage?
Those are the excuses we're given here in the U.S. when they do background and credit checks that indicate that our credit histories may be a bit spotty.
It's got nothing to do with race or location but everything to do with human nature and avarice.
That would be your opinion and you're entitled to it but millions obviously disagree for a variety of reasons, many of which are cited as the interface and ads.
I tried Opera when it first came out and hated it. Tried it again a while later - still hated it. Tried it recently, still have it on my computer but still hate it and don't see that it has any more functionality than Firefox or Mozilla but manages to distract me more with their bloody ads and trying to find things in what I consider counterintuitive locations. Additionally, I can't see where I can add any functionality through the use of extensions or plug-ins, or remove 'features' that I don't use through same although I can send $$$ to remove those ads.
I neither fear Opera, nor am I uncertain or doubtful of my current dislike of it. That could change in the future as the software matures but for now, I simply don't care for it and evangelizing and telling people how narrow-minded they are for stating such won't win believers or influence friends.
Since you're obviously fond not only of Opera but FUD seems to be the word of the year for you, do you even know what it means? Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt. You seem to attach that to many of your posts leading me to believe that you either don't know what it means or have too limited of an imagination to come up with anything else.
Please find a new catchphrase, that one is as tired and useless as Internet Exploder.
It isn't a lie if it's my opinion, which it is. Claiming otherwise is juvenile, an obvious misunderstanding of terminology and a desire to overuse the way kewl term FUD in yet another sentence.
Don't think that Microsoft is above getting John Doe warrants for one or two individuals in Bumfuckt, Idaho, Slipittome, Georgia, and Kissyosista, Louisiana, for pirated versions of Windows XP to make a strong point. Let's just call it Operation Sundevil Lite.
Of course, Bubba not only happens to have a pirated version of Winders XP but Mickey$oft Office Perfessional and copies of Deer Hunter, Deer Hunter Avenger, and 20 other redneck favourites on his computer that Mickey$oft kindly informs the BSA about.
Right. And that would be why one of the Product Activation keys that we received directly from Mickey$oft in our official Mickey$oft Action Pack (MAPS) was flagged as being either a pirated number or a volume licensing key that was supposedly known to be pirated or in the wild. I don't recall the exact verbiage any longer, only that previous checks on my computer had been without problem.
At the last MS TS2 event I attended I asked one of the speakers about it during one of the sessions and was told to ask him about it again after the session ended and he was downright hostile and had no explanation as to why this had occured. He not only couldn't (wouldn't?) provide any answers but he couldn't seem to get away from me fast enough and, in retrospect, that's probably why he didn't want to address the subject in the open session despite the fact that it was the topic at hand.
I used a keygen recently on my computer and re-ran the Genuine Advantage check and came up clean. I'm half tempted to let our $199 a year MAPs membership expire and just use a keygen instead of doing things the 'genuine' way since that seems to get us nothing more than a pain in the ass and more bullshit from Mickey$oft than my garden can use in a season.
That all depends on one's taste and how it's configured. I hate the default Opera interface and find it cluttered and tiresome and that includes the much touted current version. Even after much tweaking I just hate it, especially the bloody distracting ads in the menubar space that won't allow me to pare down the menubar the way that I like to.
OTOH, I mostly like both IE (for those few sites that still doggedly require it) and Firefox's default interfaces and have both configured even more lean and mean with mostly icons and very little text. Others who have used my computer are usually totally lost without the text labels all over the place having never had to rely on the icons themselves and/or just the tooltips.
Opera seems to work well enough but the biggest complaint I seem to see about it concerns the interface and the ads. Maybe they could use the money they get for the 20 or so paid versions they've sold and buy a clue.
What about one of the state or federal agencies allegedly designed to protect us poor working grunts against this type of abuse? They can usually direct you towards some form of free or low cost legal counsel.
Seriously, I would never have dreamed that long hair for men was still an issue after all these years as long as it's kept clean, there are no :ahem: passengers and it doesn't present a workplace hazard.
I have had the unpleasant experience of having to hold a serious discussion with an anti-social and possibly disturbed male subordinate on several occasions on the subject of the use of things like soap and shampoo. Thank God he was too big of a wuss to get any sort of tattoos or piercings because with his poor hygiene he would have ended up with necrotizing fasciitis within a week.
To be sporting, I'll lend you a couple of middle fingers if you'll return the favour for one of my former employers of similar ilk. Yours sounds like a hostile workplace and I feel your pain and suffering.
In most places I'm sure there are also workforce commissions and attorneys who can feel your pain and suffering of working in such a hostile environment. I'd be tempted to introduce myself to them.
Unless you had the implants done after you started working there, had a pair of size 48 FFFs dropped in or yapped about them to everyone why would they notice, find out or even care?
After working 20 years in I.T. the only girls, or women, we considered brainless sluts were the ones that acted the part and those usually didn't last long enough for us to even learn their names much less care whether they had breast implants, body modifications or anything else.
re: the other body mods, when I got my various tattoos (yes, they're really called that) I didn't pick them out of a book, randomly choose symbols that someone said meant something (I can't help but wonder how many of those popular kanji or tribal symbols really translate into screw u dumbass) that I couldn't personally translate or decipher, get meaningless crap like the grim reaper, somebody's name or gangsta crap a foot in diameter on my neck and my only piercings are the standard small multiple ear piercings.
My tattoos are small and easily covered by short sleeves (except for the one on my ankle that covers a surgical scar), are unobtrusive in design and have personal meaning. The few clients who have seen or noticed them have been surprised and/or amused by them rather than shocked or disgusted.
Just some food for thought.
True, when they're within U.S., U.K. or Canadian borders but I'm encountering more and more outside same and finding the sites up long after I've pinged them and discovered that the entire site and apparent 'host' is nothing more than one big phishing hole. Some of the URLs might change slightly but they were all going back to the same motherships albeit with different info.
Complaining to their upstream providers, or APNIC (for example) is like spitting into the wind.
Actually, that isn't true for mine. Mine shows up about 21 times depending on the search parameters with only 2 results being from textfiles.com.
Between Jason and Google, many BBSs will live on in archives for an untold number of years. :)
I'm logged in and I've only begun seeing the code today whenever I respond. My karma is still the same positive it's been for however long I've been on here.
Of course, all good things must end, Steve Case ended up becoming CEO of the newly formed AOL, the clueless were loosed upon an unsuspecting internet and CompuServe was assimilated.
LOL. I met my husband, another FidoNet sysop in R19 but another city/state via BBSing although that wasn't my goal when I put the BBS up a few years earlier, just a benefit. My husband also happens to be british. :)