While the music industry has been clumsily bullying its way through the federal government, the movie industry has taken a more subtle -- and more effective -- approach.
If it has taken us this long to figure out that the movie industry is doing this, what's to say the music intustry isn't as well? After all, they BOTH clumsily bullied their way through the government.
Yes, it has drawbacks, but if you want a house that will still be usable in three hundred years it's the only way to go. Not only are there many castles and the such still around that were made out of stone, but there's many stone houses as well. For instance, the old rock house on Moore Farm is almost 250 years old now, and still livable.
Go to Computer Surplus Science (not positive about the last word), located in the industrial district.
They have literally thousands of computers of all types..from old Commodores to 1.5 GHz machines, all at 40% or less of retail price. I got the Dell Inspiron 8100 that I am using right now for a mere $800, and this was when 8100s were top of the line. Believe me, they're niiiice.
Thankfully I live in Seattle so maybe I can collect an easy $500 before Microsoft guts the current law.
I also live in Washington state, and I can tell you from experience: collecting the $500 will not be easy. Here are the ideal conditions for a lawsuit (taken from the Peacefire webpage, which I have been a member of for four years now):
* The defendant is a corporation, and you know the state where they are incorporated. (Usually, the state where they're incorporated is either the state where they're located, or Delaware -- because Delaware makes it easy to incorporate there.) Legally, a company cannot use "Corporation" or "Inc." or "Incorporated" anywhere, unless they really are a corporation -- but that won't tell you where they're incorporated, or even if they're incorporated in the U.S. Unfortunately, with most spam, you can't even find out the name of the company that sent it, much less whether they're a corporation.
* You can easily prove one of the following (one of these conditions must be satisfied to show that the spam violated the law):
* The sender address ("From:") or return address ("Reply-To:") was forged. If you get mail from an address that looks blatantly forged, like "98of292h38h2r@hotmail.com", send a blank message to that address, and keep the error message that comes back to you saying that there is no such address. This can be used to prove, in court, that the spammer violated Washington's anti-spam law by forging the return address.
The subject line was "misleading". This is a subjective determination, one that will ultimately be made by the judge. One of the spammers that I'm suing, sent me an advertisement with the subject line "Shareholder request", which I considered blatantly misleading since Peacefire doesn't even have "shareholders". (The gist of the advertisement was, "You will look good in your shareholder's eyes if you use our product.")
You have registered your address with the WAISP (http://registry.waisp.org/) registry -- to sue a spammer under Washington's law, you have to be able to show that there was some way for the spammer to determine that you lived in Washington.
More power to you if you can collect the $500, but it's a tough road ahead.
I'd do it, but I'm on 56k. Can any of you broadband people with webspace please mirror the mpgs and post them in a reply to this thread? The bandwidth bills are high enough when someone gets Slashdotted, I don't even want to see what they would be like after getting Slashdotted by people downloading 4-12MB files.
For those people still hungry for karma, I'm SURE this would get you some.
Honestly, I hate Microsoft as much as the next Slashdotter..but come on. Whenever I have a choice between DirectX and OpenGL, I choose DirectX. It's technically superior, and there is no reason for them to spend their money developing anything else. I have a feeling the shareholders may have pressed this.
I first tried playing Nethack a few years ago, and I couldn't stand it. I'm a huge fan of RPGs and MUDs, but I just couldn't get the whole nethack thing. For those of you who don't like it either, try Falcon's Eye (or another Nethack GUI--there's many!)
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While the music industry has been clumsily bullying its way through the federal government, the movie industry has taken a more subtle -- and more effective -- approach.
If it has taken us this long to figure out that the movie industry is doing this, what's to say the music intustry isn't as well? After all, they BOTH clumsily bullied their way through the government.
And it will not cost you a piddling $50, as in the California, Washington, and other state laws. What are you talking about? It's $500, not $50.
My, wasn't THAT a crappy post!
Yes.
That isn't mold, buddy..
Yes, it has drawbacks, but if you want a house that will still be usable in three hundred years it's the only way to go. Not only are there many castles and the such still around that were made out of stone, but there's many stone houses as well. For instance, the old rock house on Moore Farm is almost 250 years old now, and still livable.
Go to Computer Surplus Science (not positive about the last word), located in the industrial district.
They have literally thousands of computers of all types..from old Commodores to 1.5 GHz machines, all at 40% or less of retail price. I got the Dell Inspiron 8100 that I am using right now for a mere $800, and this was when 8100s were top of the line. Believe me, they're niiiice.
Thankfully I live in Seattle so maybe I can collect an easy $500 before Microsoft guts the current law.
I also live in Washington state, and I can tell you from experience: collecting the $500 will not be easy. Here are the ideal conditions for a lawsuit (taken from the Peacefire webpage, which I have been a member of for four years now):
* The defendant is a corporation, and you know the state where they are incorporated. (Usually, the state where they're incorporated is either the state where they're located, or Delaware -- because Delaware makes it easy to incorporate there.) Legally, a company cannot use "Corporation" or "Inc." or "Incorporated" anywhere, unless they really are a corporation -- but that won't tell you where they're incorporated, or even if they're incorporated in the U.S. Unfortunately, with most spam, you can't even find out the name of the company that sent it, much less whether they're a corporation.
* You can easily prove one of the following (one of these conditions must be satisfied to show that the spam violated the law):
* The sender address ("From:") or return address ("Reply-To:") was forged. If you get mail from an address that looks blatantly forged, like "98of292h38h2r@hotmail.com", send a blank message to that address, and keep the error message that comes back to you saying that there is no such address. This can be used to prove, in court, that the spammer violated Washington's anti-spam law by forging the return address. The subject line was "misleading". This is a subjective determination, one that will ultimately be made by the judge. One of the spammers that I'm suing, sent me an advertisement with the subject line "Shareholder request", which I considered blatantly misleading since Peacefire doesn't even have "shareholders". (The gist of the advertisement was, "You will look good in your shareholder's eyes if you use our product.")
You have registered your address with the WAISP (http://registry.waisp.org/) registry -- to sue a spammer under Washington's law, you have to be able to show that there was some way for the spammer to determine that you lived in Washington.
More power to you if you can collect the $500, but it's a tough road ahead.
YAPC is a low-cost ($85USD) conference, but still has high quality speakers and topics.
Did anyone else read that and think "Oh, I wonder if they're Bose?"
Found the changelog here. It reads:
Linux 2.2.24-rc5
* Fix n_hdlc globals pollution (Paul Fulghum)
* Fix initialisation of sk->sleep (Holger Smolinksi)
* Handle init_ethdev returning null in tulip (Neale Banks)
* Backport rtc wildcard fix to 2.2 (Paul Gortmaker)
* Correct wireless config help (Neale Banks)
* Fix smc9194 build (me)
Hahaha, don't think that I connect at 56k either. I'm currently connected at 26.4Kbps, and that's normal.
No mention as to whether or not they support Banyan VINES (sorry, I couldn't resist).
Apology DECLINED.
I'd do it, but I'm on 56k. Can any of you broadband people with webspace please mirror the mpgs and post them in a reply to this thread? The bandwidth bills are high enough when someone gets Slashdotted, I don't even want to see what they would be like after getting Slashdotted by people downloading 4-12MB files.
For those people still hungry for karma, I'm SURE this would get you some.
Honestly, I hate Microsoft as much as the next Slashdotter..but come on. Whenever I have a choice between DirectX and OpenGL, I choose DirectX. It's technically superior, and there is no reason for them to spend their money developing anything else. I have a feeling the shareholders may have pressed this.
I have a lot of experience in this area: "You know, Ralsky, 100% of spammers that I track down get castrated on the spot."
The cool thing is the predicted 6.4 GB/second I/O throughput on the system bus...wow!
I saw this right before I went to bed, it's sad news indeed. It definately deserves a front page Slashdot story.
I first tried playing Nethack a few years ago, and I couldn't stand it. I'm a huge fan of RPGs and MUDs, but I just couldn't get the whole nethack thing. For those of you who don't like it either, try Falcon's Eye (or another Nethack GUI--there's many!)
Funny? For fucksake, I don't know which is worse: the mods, ShittyGal, or her previously cum-guzzling mother.
Yeah, but so's "she".
Come on ACs! You're smart enough to know that this character isn't really female!
"Her" latest journal entry includes a nice link to watersports. Although if you're reading her journal you probably like piss down your throat.
Mod me up!