So *then* I suppose you have to ask "In the first mathematical antimony, does Kant conclusively prove both that there can have been no beginning to time and that there must have been a beginning to time?"
and give the user a 255 character textarea to put their answer in.
Why 255 characters? Wouldn't a couple of radio buttons suffice?
OYes | O No
Now the bots will get in 50% of the time, even if they are only taking a guess. I think a captcha would work better.
The article was light on details, but what I have read and heard the past few days was that the card readers were physically removed from the checkout lanes, tampered with, and then replaced. The swipe readers were then used to collect card numbers and/or PINs. It was not a breach of their back-end database, it was collecting the data off of each customer that used the affected card readers.
Apologizing for a crime is another way of admitting guilt. They are innocent of the charges that have been brought against them, in a way that is so obvious that the idea that they should even need to defend themselves is itself ridiculous - far more ridiculous than the "haircuts of the 70's" gag. I think they made a good choice. In that case, "Under advice of council, we have no comment at this time" would have been a better response.
I don't think the whole issue would have disappeared if they had been more repentant, but the blame and ire of the populace would have been focused more on The Cartoon Network and the ad agency rather than on them. What the national news media didn't report was that there were two fake pipe-bombs planted in the subway earlier that same day, so the police officials and the bomb squad were already on edge. Once they got the call reporting suspicious devices all over the city (crudely constructed panels with battery packs held together by electrical tape, wires, circuit boards, and blinkenlights), they reacted accordingly. We need to put everything into context here. These things were placed on bridges, highway overpasses, and at landmark sites like Fenway Park, all what would be considered high-value targets. In hindsight it may look like an over-reaction, but personally, I'm glad they erred on the side of caution.
The national news is trying to make Boston and it's officials look like fools when, in reality, they reacted quickly and decisively to the situation. Once it was determined that the devices were harmless, they went after those responsible and arrested Borat and his little buddy. The two clowns and the ad agency should have been more forthcoming once the shit had hit the fan. Hell, they should have obtained the proper permits to hang these thing up in the first place and this mess would have been averted. Do I think that these two should go to prison, probably not, but their actions the day of the incident and in the immediate aftermath did not help their cause either.
And even more bad that the two poor schmucks working for the ad agency are still charged with crimes. They should be set free, and whatever moron phoned in a litebrite as a "bomb" (and the corresponding police moron who agreed with him) should be looking at potential liability.
The two knuckleheads that hung these things up did not do themselves any favors with their idiot behavior during and after their preliminary hearings. When this story first hit, most people where of the frame of mind that these were just a couple of college kids hired by the ad agency and were just trying to make a few bucks. After seeing them outside the courthouse mocking the whole thing and telling reporters that they would only answer hair-related questions, most people lost any sort of sympathy for these two idiots. The prevailing feeling in and around Boston is summed up by local reporter and talk-show host Howie Carr. I don't think that these two clowns garnered themselves any support by acting the way they did. If they had shown any remorse or issued any sort of apology, they would have been fine. The worst that they would have faced (and rightly so) would have maybe been a fine for trespassing and/or littering. Instead, Borat may end up deported back to Belarus and his buddy could end up in Federal pound-me-in-the-ass-prison.
The funniest quip I heard from the press conference was one reporter, fed up with their stupidity, who asked them "I have a hair-related question for you, do you think you will have to cut your hair when they send you to prison?"
If you were a terrorist, you'd want to make your explosive device INCONSPICUOUS
Unless you wanted people to gather around and get nice and close to the device before detonation.
"Oh look, blinkenlights, I wonder what that is!"
People gather around, look and point then...
[BOOM]!
As ridiculous as the whole situation in Boston was, I am glad that the authorities decided to err on the side of caution. They were dealing with a number of crudely constructed, odd-looking devices with battery packs, electrical tape, and wires connected to circuitry. Seems bomb-like enough to me to warrant some investigation. The idiot marketing company that thought it was a good idea to hang these things all over the city should be publicly flogged for this.
Answer #2: The Mac Mini. Ships with no keyboard, mouse, or monitor. Hook up a KVM (or KDM [Keyboard, Display, Mouse], as Apple calls them, just to add to the TLA confusion) to your existing hardware and off you go.
I saw a unit on a friend's DeLorean that could flip the video image horizontally to mimic a rear-view mirror. Trying to back your vehicle while looking at a screen showing everything behind you the "right way around" was very confusing.
I too would get message reminders like that but when I went to voicemail, there would not be any new messages in the inbox. There would, however, be old messages (30 days+) that were going to be purged. Verizon was sending me the voice mail reminder to let me know that they were going to purge the old messages if I didn't do something with them. The alert displayed on the phone would only read "One new voice message" and was not at all specific. Might that be what is happening with your account? If you had an old message in there that had been flagged as "important", that may also explain the "important" flag on the message.
On my Verizon phone (Motorola e815), they limit you to only using sound files (mp3 and wav, I believe) that are stored in the phone's memory as ringtones. You can copy sound files to an SD card via a data cable and play them on the phone, but they disable the ability to use them as ringtones (because they are not on the internal memory). Also, they disable the ability to transfer these files from the SD card to the phone's memory, effectively locking out the ability to set them as your ringtone. If you want to use a custom ringtone, you need to purchase it from their "Get It Now" data plan within the phone for some foolish amount of money.
Also, Verizon has disabled the OBEX bluetooth profile on the phone so that you cannot copy to/from the phone via bluetooth. Thanks to some hard work by some intrepid hackers on www.howardforums.com, there are instructions available to enable most of the features that Verizon has disabled such as OBEX, file transfer from SD card to phone memory, dial up networking, etc. There are hacks for other phones and providers listed there as well*. Thanks to the folks on their forums I can transfer files to and from my phone via bluetooth, use my mp3 files as ringtones, use the DUN features of the phone, and sync the phone with Outlook via bluetooth (contacts, calendar, and e-mail).
*Be warned that these hacks will certainly void your warranty and may brickify your phone if done incorrectly.
1) it doesn't "not work correctly" - it works just fine, but the installer is set to flag it as "not compatible" with an UNRELEASED operating system. SHOCK! HORROR!
2) it checks each time you run the software - if your response to this is "what if I'm never online", don't bother.
1) Vista will be available to MSDN subscribers very soon, reportedly sometime this week. The Zune will be useless to any of these folks that installs Vista. Granted, this will probably represent a very small percentage of overall Zune users, but still, no joy for them. Also, how long has Vista been in devolpment? They coulnd't develop the Zune software to play nice with it? They have been working with third-party developers on what to expect when Vista arrives for years now. They couldn't do it internally?
2) True, most machines will be online at some point so this won't be that huge of an issue. However, if I just ripped open the box on my shiny new Zune and couldn't get any of my mp3s copied onto it because I was using my Vista laptop at Grandma's house (Grandma doesn't have internet access), I would be a bit pissed. In fact, the thing would go back to the store and a shiny new iPod would probably come home with me instead.
I'm no Microsoft basher, in fact I'm.Net developer and Microsoft products pay my bills, but come on. I find it very odd that they couldn't get their new iPod killer music player to play nice with their new flagship operating system out of the box. The only reason I can think of is that their new super-duper DRM system for the Zune/Vista combo isn't quite ready yet...
Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
What if I'm not online while doing the install? Methinks that this is a fairly major "oops" on Microsoft's part. Vista has been under development for how long now and they couldn't get the Zune software to work correctly? Ouch.
and it complicates things for consumers because they have to buy the right version for their player (so they have to know and care what version they use, as do any friends/relatives intending to buy them an HD movie as a gift)
In my opinion, this is the number one stumbling block for both formats. This was a problem with VHS and Beta when they came out as well, but people had an easier time discerning the two as the physical size of the tapes were quite different. You could tell aunt Martha that your VCR used the "big" tapes (VHS), not the "little" ones (Beta). With HD-DVD and Blue-Ray the medium itself, as well as the packaging materials, is identical in size, shape and appearance. Hell, throw in current DVD and CD media as well. At first glance they all look alike, they are nothing but shiny metallic discs, all the same size! The new format war is going to stifle acceptance and sales of both types of HD media as the public is not going to be able to figure out what the hell they need to buy.
Kraft too was ready to move the team to Hartford Connecticut (scroll down to "2000-present") because Massachusetts would not pay to upgrade the infrastructure around the existing stadium. Eventually Massachusetts loaned Kraft the funds to upgrade Route 1 in and around Foxboro and to improve the surrounding infrastructure. Kraft then built the new Gillette Stadium with his own funds on the same site as the old stadium. The loan is being payed back through parking revenue.
Worse yet is the overlay to the UI that Verizon slaps on (most) of their phones. My wife got the RAZR and I picked up an E815 with the original Motorola UI. The Moto UI is much, much nicer than the crappy Verizon one on hers.
Worse, imagine a 15 mph fender-bender that shorts one of these suckers out. I wouldn't want to the fireman that has to use the jaws of life on one of these vehicles after a wreck...
That's that Intellitxt inline spamming JavaScript crap. It basically scans the content of a page and turns certain keywords into anchors hooked into a style sheet that pops up the ads when you mouse over it.
Slashdot Mirror
OYes | O No
Now the bots will get in 50% of the time, even if they are only taking a guess. I think a captcha would work better.
The article was light on details, but what I have read and heard the past few days was that the card readers were physically removed from the checkout lanes, tampered with, and then replaced. The swipe readers were then used to collect card numbers and/or PINs. It was not a breach of their back-end database, it was collecting the data off of each customer that used the affected card readers.
I don't think the whole issue would have disappeared if they had been more repentant, but the blame and ire of the populace would have been focused more on The Cartoon Network and the ad agency rather than on them. What the national news media didn't report was that there were two fake pipe-bombs planted in the subway earlier that same day, so the police officials and the bomb squad were already on edge. Once they got the call reporting suspicious devices all over the city (crudely constructed panels with battery packs held together by electrical tape, wires, circuit boards, and blinkenlights), they reacted accordingly. We need to put everything into context here. These things were placed on bridges, highway overpasses, and at landmark sites like Fenway Park, all what would be considered high-value targets. In hindsight it may look like an over-reaction, but personally, I'm glad they erred on the side of caution.
The national news is trying to make Boston and it's officials look like fools when, in reality, they reacted quickly and decisively to the situation. Once it was determined that the devices were harmless, they went after those responsible and arrested Borat and his little buddy. The two clowns and the ad agency should have been more forthcoming once the shit had hit the fan. Hell, they should have obtained the proper permits to hang these thing up in the first place and this mess would have been averted. Do I think that these two should go to prison, probably not, but their actions the day of the incident and in the immediate aftermath did not help their cause either.
The funniest quip I heard from the press conference was one reporter, fed up with their stupidity, who asked them "I have a hair-related question for you, do you think you will have to cut your hair when they send you to prison?"
"Oh look, blinkenlights, I wonder what that is!"
People gather around, look and point then...
[BOOM]!
As ridiculous as the whole situation in Boston was, I am glad that the authorities decided to err on the side of caution. They were dealing with a number of crudely constructed, odd-looking devices with battery packs, electrical tape, and wires connected to circuitry. Seems bomb-like enough to me to warrant some investigation. The idiot marketing company that thought it was a good idea to hang these things all over the city should be publicly flogged for this.
Maine has a few Tim's, not that it helps you out in the Pacific Northwest...
Answer #2: The Mac Mini. Ships with no keyboard, mouse, or monitor. Hook up a KVM (or KDM [Keyboard, Display, Mouse], as Apple calls them, just to add to the TLA confusion) to your existing hardware and off you go.
I saw a unit on a friend's DeLorean that could flip the video image horizontally to mimic a rear-view mirror. Trying to back your vehicle while looking at a screen showing everything behind you the "right way around" was very confusing.
I too would get message reminders like that but when I went to voicemail, there would not be any new messages in the inbox. There would, however, be old messages (30 days+) that were going to be purged. Verizon was sending me the voice mail reminder to let me know that they were going to purge the old messages if I didn't do something with them. The alert displayed on the phone would only read "One new voice message" and was not at all specific. Might that be what is happening with your account? If you had an old message in there that had been flagged as "important", that may also explain the "important" flag on the message.
On my Verizon phone (Motorola e815), they limit you to only using sound files (mp3 and wav, I believe) that are stored in the phone's memory as ringtones. You can copy sound files to an SD card via a data cable and play them on the phone, but they disable the ability to use them as ringtones (because they are not on the internal memory). Also, they disable the ability to transfer these files from the SD card to the phone's memory, effectively locking out the ability to set them as your ringtone. If you want to use a custom ringtone, you need to purchase it from their "Get It Now" data plan within the phone for some foolish amount of money.
Also, Verizon has disabled the OBEX bluetooth profile on the phone so that you cannot copy to/from the phone via bluetooth. Thanks to some hard work by some intrepid hackers on www.howardforums.com, there are instructions available to enable most of the features that Verizon has disabled such as OBEX, file transfer from SD card to phone memory, dial up networking, etc. There are hacks for other phones and providers listed there as well*. Thanks to the folks on their forums I can transfer files to and from my phone via bluetooth, use my mp3 files as ringtones, use the DUN features of the phone, and sync the phone with Outlook via bluetooth (contacts, calendar, and e-mail).
*Be warned that these hacks will certainly void your warranty and may brickify your phone if done incorrectly.
I'm still waiting for the one asshat Netscape 4.x user we have that keeps bitching about how our site is "broken" to die.
2) True, most machines will be online at some point so this won't be that huge of an issue. However, if I just ripped open the box on my shiny new Zune and couldn't get any of my mp3s copied onto it because I was using my Vista laptop at Grandma's house (Grandma doesn't have internet access), I would be a bit pissed. In fact, the thing would go back to the store and a shiny new iPod would probably come home with me instead.
I'm no Microsoft basher, in fact I'm
Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.
What if I'm not online while doing the install? Methinks that this is a fairly major "oops" on Microsoft's part. Vista has been under development for how long now and they couldn't get the Zune software to work correctly? Ouch.
In my opinion, this is the number one stumbling block for both formats. This was a problem with VHS and Beta when they came out as well, but people had an easier time discerning the two as the physical size of the tapes were quite different. You could tell aunt Martha that your VCR used the "big" tapes (VHS), not the "little" ones (Beta). With HD-DVD and Blue-Ray the medium itself, as well as the packaging materials, is identical in size, shape and appearance. Hell, throw in current DVD and CD media as well. At first glance they all look alike, they are nothing but shiny metallic discs, all the same size! The new format war is going to stifle acceptance and sales of both types of HD media as the public is not going to be able to figure out what the hell they need to buy.
Kraft too was ready to move the team to Hartford Connecticut (scroll down to "2000-present") because Massachusetts would not pay to upgrade the infrastructure around the existing stadium. Eventually Massachusetts loaned Kraft the funds to upgrade Route 1 in and around Foxboro and to improve the surrounding infrastructure. Kraft then built the new Gillette Stadium with his own funds on the same site as the old stadium. The loan is being payed back through parking revenue.
Worse yet is the overlay to the UI that Verizon slaps on (most) of their phones. My wife got the RAZR and I picked up an E815 with the original Motorola UI. The Moto UI is much, much nicer than the crappy Verizon one on hers.
The "The Platinum Mach 14" (scroll down). Good stuff!
Attleboro, MA is not in Boston as the posting states, it is a small city south of Boston.
Worse, imagine a 15 mph fender-bender that shorts one of these suckers out. I wouldn't want to the fireman that has to use the jaws of life on one of these vehicles after a wreck...
That's that Intellitxt inline spamming JavaScript crap. It basically scans the content of a page and turns certain keywords into anchors hooked into a style sheet that pops up the ads when you mouse over it.
Just claim you never got the e-mail. Show up for work on Monday like nothing happened. Simple, really.