You can set your IE to prompt for Active X controls. That way, it will ask you before running any flash stuff. If you don't want to see any flash or Active X stuff at all, just have IE disable Active X and the problem is solved.
This guy named Neil McGuyver is trying to prove you can live without a SSN. One problem he ran into is that the state of Pennsylvania won't give him a license without him producing an SSN. The fact that he doesn't have one doesn't seem to make a difference. So, he doesn't have a license. He carries a tape recorder in his car to record the ecnounter between himself and police if he gets pulled over. Well he got pulled over and he recorded the incident with the permission of the police. It still didn't do him any good. The officer changed his story on the stand and they took the word of the officer over the recording.. gotta love it.
Popup Stopper sits in your system tray and block all popups. You can turn it on and off by doubleclicking on it. If you want to leave it on, but allow a certain popup, just hold down one of your shift keys. It's takes a tiny bit of getting used to remembering to use the shift key, but after a day or 2, it will be second nature. Popup Stopper will blink in the tray and play a sound, if you want, to notify you when it blocks a popup. This software is free.
My company has had a software product called Advanced Information Manager since 1995. We, of course, refer to it as AIM and market the product as AIM. All of our customers call it AIM. I doubt many of them even know what the AIM stands for. Hmm.. wonder when AOL is going to get around to sending us a letter?;)
I hate to tell you this, but people that appear on Springer, Rikki Lake, Montell Williams, Jenny Jones etc, are NOT average Americans. Oh.. we also don't all still wear spurrs and 6 shooters either. The main reason we like to watch those shows is so we can feel better about ourselves, saying "Holy shit.. better you than me, Bubba Joe Ray Bob."
You see.. Kiddie porn doesn't hurt the pocket books of our nice corporate friends who give our government lots and lots of money so that they will pass laws that ensure that we will all stay good and happy little consumers.
Are we looking at the first steps of realizing a replication system as seen on Star Trek? Granted this article is about creating extremely tiny objects, but judging from the shape of that wine glass, little robots are still a looong ways off.
What's more interesting is the ability to construct an object by combining its base elements from a gaseous state. I might be wrong, but I have a feeling we will see the ability to create complex organic/inorganic structures from base elements, before 'nanotechnology'. Now all we need is the ability to deconstruct easily storable matter into an alternate state that can then be reconstructed into the desired object.
When we can do this.. they will be interesting times indeed.
Exactly.. I find it distantly amusing that the hard core supporters of an industry that is based entirely on standards and a strict way of doing things (i.e. programming methodologies, hardware interoperability, design specs, etc.) are the first to complain when high-profile software development companies choose not to allow for fragmentation and deviation from the status quo. Granted, I am glad there are alternatives to the monopolistic Windows OS', and I am even glad there are variants in amongst those alternatives (Linux, BSD, etc.) but you can't expect everyone to support everything out there.. Especially not 30 different versions of Linux and 15 different versions of BSD.
I would love to see us all get together and consolidate our efforts into supporting the grand design of our alternative to Windows/Mac OS/BeOS with the most structured development practices we can.
*nix has grown to the point where we all can't keep working at it in 50 different directions at once and expect the established industry to pick up the slack created by our lack of tight cooperation.
Don't get me wrong.. open source is great.. and having some of the world's best programming minds contributing to its progression to a main stream reality is far better than any closed source methodologies.. but.. I whole-heartedly believe that we need to start consolidating our efforts.
Nowadays, open source != open free for all coding. If we expect the main stream to do things for us, then we need to stop being "rebels" and start paying attention to what we need to do for them, also.
id has spelled this out for us quite clearly. Now, all we need to do is listen.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm just *waiting* for the day that we all have to pay the RIAA for the right to stream urine into our own toilets;)
The web based solution sounds like a great way to go. I would suggest a good database system like SQL Server or Sybase ASA. For the web side of things, you have PHP, Perl, ASP, JSP, or, my favorite, ColdFusion. There are many options at many different prices.
Yes, you can alter the bus, but the best I have seen is where the bus has been bumped up to ~220mhz. Anything above that and the system ecounters pesky little problems, like boot failure. I suppose altering the core voltage could help with this, but on the boards I have seen, the core voltage changer thingy doesn't have a great enough range to compensate effectively.
The client never 'owns' the domain name. A judge ruled that domain names aren't property and therefore, can't be owned.. only leased from the central registry. Also, NetSol can do anything they want to with your domain any time they want. It blows!
On a side note, I would like to comment on the fact that NSI now seams to be offering domain names for free for 90 days. The deal is, you register a domain name and you get to use it for free for 90 days. At the end of 90 days, the registrant can either pay to continue using the domain, or they can lose it.
I read through NSI's FAQ on the subject, but I didn't see where they said what really happens to domain names that aren't paid for after 90 days. I am seriously concerned that they might not be imediately released as they should be. If you look at all of the 'interesting' things that NSI has been doing and tie them all together.. well... As it stands now:
1. Joe Schmoe can register a domain name for 90 days for free. Considering how cheap most people are, guess who's going to take a lot of business away from the other registrars. The fact that someone feels they need to 'try out' a domain name for 90 days hints that these people aren't serious about owning the domain name and, more likely than not, will let it 'expire' after the 90 days. This will also be a very popular with domain speculators who won't pay for the domain if it doesn't sell within the 90 days.
2. NetSol doesn't say exactly what happens to those free domains that exire after 90 days.
3. NetSol doesn't say exactly how long names are expired before they are released back to the domain pool.
4. NetSol has a new 'service'where they have decided to auction off expired domains to the highest bidder rather than release them back into the pool like they should.
Does everyone see where I am going with this? This isn't exactly normal merchandise now. Either you need/want the name or you don't. You'll have to pay for it sooner or later and if you can't cough up $12 for it sonner, then you obviously really don't need/want it. I forsee many, many people registering a free domain just because they can and have no intention of really keeping it. Then when the names expire and aren't paid for, NSI puts them on the auction block to 'recoup their costs' and to do whatever else with the extra money. It all sounds a little too well timed and convenient if you ask me. They are just flat out abusing their past, total monopoly and current, practical monopoly. This is just another example of why I support a floating DNS-root, but that's another rant for another time.
So.. my question once again is:
1. What exactly are they doing? 2. Better yet, what is ICANN going to do about it, if anything?
My answers to these questions are:
1. I think I spelled it out prettly clearly 2. Nothing, except maybe take a cut behind their closed doors.
Nice idea, but if you read NSI's ToS, you'll see that they make you agree taht they are not responsible for anything that ever did, does, or ever might happen.
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"Can someone please explain why the RIAA and MPAA members are deserving of a new special status under the law?"
... sad, isn't it?
Because, though they aren't deserving, they have the money to buy that status
Mesa hungry, moy mucho hungry.
That's totaly absurd. It happened while they were running with scissors. I think that's the main message of the flim. Kids, take note.
You can set your IE to prompt for Active X controls. That way, it will ask you before running any flash stuff. If you don't want to see any flash or Active X stuff at all, just have IE disable Active X and the problem is solved.
http://www.cjmciver.org/free.shtml
This guy named Neil McGuyver is trying to prove you can live without a SSN. One problem he ran into is that the state of Pennsylvania won't give him a license without him producing an SSN. The fact that he doesn't have one doesn't seem to make a difference. So, he doesn't have a license. He carries a tape recorder in his car to record the ecnounter between himself and police if he gets pulled over. Well he got pulled over and he recorded the incident with the permission of the police. It still didn't do him any good. The officer changed his story on the stand and they took the word of the officer over the recording .. gotta love it.
http://www.cjmciver.org/free.shtml
http://www.panicware.com/products.html
Popup Stopper sits in your system tray and block all popups. You can turn it on and off by doubleclicking on it. If you want to leave it on, but allow a certain popup, just hold down one of your shift keys. It's takes a tiny bit of getting used to remembering to use the shift key, but after a day or 2, it will be second nature. Popup Stopper will blink in the tray and play a sound, if you want, to notify you when it blocks a popup. This software is free.
My company has had a software product called Advanced Information Manager since 1995. We, of course, refer to it as AIM and market the product as AIM. All of our customers call it AIM. I doubt many of them even know what the AIM stands for. Hmm .. wonder when AOL is going to get around to sending us a letter? ;)
Um .. I would suggest not listening to your fridges statistics and make sure you eat that chicken before it's 50 days old ;)
If only W. Bush was smart enough to know what 3-D means ... Is he's like our last prez., he probably figures it's a bra size ..
I hate to tell you this, but people that appear on Springer, Rikki Lake, Montell Williams, Jenny Jones etc, are NOT average Americans. Oh .. we also don't all still wear spurrs and 6 shooters either. The main reason we like to watch those shows is so we can feel better about ourselves, saying "Holy shit .. better you than me, Bubba Joe Ray Bob."
You see .. Kiddie porn doesn't hurt the pocket books of our nice corporate friends who give our government lots and lots of money so that they will pass laws that ensure that we will all stay good and happy little consumers.
Na .. I'd prefer to kill them myself ;)
You can't patent the 1 or the 0. Microsoft already did that.
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http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatent
Are we looking at the first steps of realizing a replication system as seen on Star Trek? Granted this article is about creating extremely tiny objects, but judging from the shape of that wine glass, little robots are still a looong ways off.
.. they will be interesting times indeed.
What's more interesting is the ability to construct an object by combining its base elements from a gaseous state. I might be wrong, but I have a feeling we will see the ability to create complex organic/inorganic structures from base elements, before 'nanotechnology'. Now all we need is the ability to deconstruct easily storable matter into an alternate state that can then be reconstructed into the desired object.
When we can do this
Exactly .. I find it distantly amusing that the hard core supporters of an industry that is based entirely on standards and a strict way of doing things (i.e. programming methodologies, hardware interoperability, design specs, etc.) are the first to complain when high-profile software development companies choose not to allow for fragmentation and deviation from the status quo. Granted, I am glad there are alternatives to the monopolistic Windows OS', and I am even glad there are variants in amongst those alternatives (Linux, BSD, etc.) but you can't expect everyone to support everything out there .. Especially not 30 different versions of Linux and 15 different versions of BSD.
.. open source is great .. and having some of the world's best programming minds contributing to its progression to a main stream reality is far better than any closed source methodologies .. but .. I whole-heartedly believe that we need to start consolidating our efforts.
I would love to see us all get together and consolidate our efforts into supporting the grand design of our alternative to Windows/Mac OS/BeOS with the most structured development practices we can.
*nix has grown to the point where we all can't keep working at it in 50 different directions at once and expect the established industry to pick up the slack created by our lack of tight cooperation.
Don't get me wrong
Nowadays, open source != open free for all coding. If we expect the main stream to do things for us, then we need to stop being "rebels" and start paying attention to what we need to do for them, also.
id has spelled this out for us quite clearly. Now, all we need to do is listen.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm just *waiting* for the day that we all have to pay the RIAA for the right to stream urine into our own toilets ;)
I heard on Sci-Fi last night that they are going to show the entire series, start to finish, in one day, again this coming Sunday.
.. You know how they are .. they play everything at least 20 times ;)
Come, on
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The web based solution sounds like a great way to go. I would suggest a good database system like SQL Server or Sybase ASA. For the web side of things, you have PHP, Perl, ASP, JSP, or, my favorite, ColdFusion. There are many options at many different prices.
Star Wars, Episode II - The Sith Lord Who Shagged Me.
Yes, you can alter the bus, but the best I have seen is where the bus has been bumped up to ~220mhz. Anything above that and the system ecounters pesky little problems, like boot failure. I suppose altering the core voltage could help with this, but on the boards I have seen, the core voltage changer thingy doesn't have a great enough range to compensate effectively.
Sad to say .. it could realisticly go either way. It just all boils down to they don't know what the hell they are doing.
The client never 'owns' the domain name. A judge ruled that domain names aren't property and therefore, can't be owned .. only leased from the central registry. Also, NetSol can do anything they want to with your domain any time they want. It blows!
On a side note, I would like to comment on the fact that NSI now seams to be offering domain names for free for 90 days. The deal is, you register a domain name and you get to use it for free for 90 days. At the end of 90 days, the registrant can either pay to continue using the domain, or they can lose it.
.. well ... As it stands now:
.. my question once again is:
I read through NSI's FAQ on the subject, but I didn't see where they said what really happens to domain names that aren't paid for after 90 days. I am seriously concerned that they might not be imediately released as they should be. If you look at all of the 'interesting' things that NSI has been doing and tie them all together
1. Joe Schmoe can register a domain name for 90 days for free. Considering how cheap most people are, guess who's going to take a lot of business away from the other registrars. The fact that someone feels they need to 'try out' a domain name for 90 days hints that these people aren't serious about owning the domain name and, more likely than not, will let it 'expire' after the 90 days. This will also be a very popular with domain speculators who won't pay for the domain if it doesn't sell within the 90 days.
2. NetSol doesn't say exactly what happens to those free domains that exire after 90 days.
3. NetSol doesn't say exactly how long names are expired before they are released back to the domain pool.
4. NetSol has a new 'service'where they have decided to auction off expired domains to the highest bidder rather than release them back into the pool like they should.
Does everyone see where I am going with this? This isn't exactly normal merchandise now. Either you need/want the name or you don't. You'll have to pay for it sooner or later and if you can't cough up $12 for it sonner, then you obviously really don't need/want it. I forsee many, many people registering a free domain just because they can and have no intention of really keeping it. Then when the names expire and aren't paid for, NSI puts them on the auction block to 'recoup their costs' and to do whatever else with the extra money. It all sounds a little too well timed and convenient if you ask me. They are just flat out abusing their past, total monopoly and current, practical monopoly. This is just another example of why I support a floating DNS-root, but that's another rant for another time.
So
1. What exactly are they doing?
2. Better yet, what is ICANN going to do about it, if anything?
My answers to these questions are:
1. I think I spelled it out prettly clearly
2. Nothing, except maybe take a cut behind their closed doors.
Nice idea, but if you read NSI's ToS, you'll see that they make you agree taht they are not responsible for anything that ever did, does, or ever might happen.