I have fraud protection on my CC too. It's called a Visa Check Card. It has only a limited amount of money in there (beer > anything) and if they really want to steal that # (the only # I use to make purchases online) they are more than welcome to.
It's great protection for me. I am not really worried about CC # theft, but if it does happen I have not only Visa to back me, I also have the limited amount they can charge.
If you don't have the ability to get a 1x only CC # (like AMEX) then I suggest using this method of personal protection.
yeah, they will call call-centers to make sure that their hold times are within a certain time-constraint (I don't know what the time is). People call up complaining and they call in. When I worked as a CSR I would get several calls a month in which this was the case.
"Just calling in from the State of Washington to check your hold times, we heard they were long, it took me less than 45 seconds to reach you, everything seems ok, thank you for your time."
Who the fuck is the State of WA to determine what the hold times are. Bah.
it would only become exciting if they made it "fictionalized" when one of the PARC guys goes postal gutting the exec's at Xerox for denying that this would be the way of the future, castrating Jobbs for stealing their ideas and calling it a Macintosh, and then cutting out Billy's tongue and his arms before shoving a chainsaw into his chest.
The MPAA and the RIAA want everyone to have a video *player* and a CD *player*. They want you to have a computer w/an Internet connection and an MP3 *player*. They want to charge for per/use fees on the Net and they want to rake you for your CD purchases.
I think we should get the TV ads that have been running recently about having Church in the basement of houses, having a person pulled over for newspapers.
I think everyone is beginning to catch on. Someday they all will and we won't have to listen to the bullshit anymore.
the tower could be re-erected (sounds like pr0n I know) quickly in the event that it was actually hit by the shockwave or direct blast. The important part is that the actual bunker remains intact.
So far you are supposed to be happy at the actions they took. If they don't re-release the software after they fix the GPL violations you are free to rant and rave about how Borg-like they are.
Seriously though, they openly admitted that the FSF advised them that they were in violation, they took the software down, and they said they are going to make changes and re-release after they become compliant again.
Battlebots was good when it was a once-a-year geek-a-thon, not a show on all the fucking time w/the same boring, old, shit.
I was excited to see the tournament on/. and other places on the 'Net once a year. It was fun. I got to see a lot of ingenious designs, etc. On TV it was crap (especially when that fat fuck from late night TV had one w/his face on it, fan or not, it was lame).
so you are going to tell me that when I download 5 DiVX movies a day (700+mb each) that I am *NOT* hogging 3.5G of bandwith for that day?
Sure, traffic hogs it, but so do the files. When you have 85% of your cable modem subscribers downloading 700+mb files daily, all day, everyday, you are going to see a significant drop in your overall bandwith.
Again, I will point out that when no one was here in this college town (25000 person difference) that the bandwith was WIDELY available. Once RR started getting everyone back on, the bandwith went to hell.
it has nothing to do w/the advertising, the searches, etc. It has to do SOLELY w/the LARGE downloads that users of P2P networks do.
Over the summer (when no one was in this little college town) I was steadily get 250+k/s downloads (mostly updating Debian;)) Now that everyone is back (and I assume loving Kazaa to it's limit) I average about 75 to 100k/s.
I am even tempted to call Road Runner and complain (I am just too lazy to fix Win98 and have it running so they can do their tests).
DiVX and MP3s are what kills the bandwith. Not the little "inefficiencies" that P2P authors added in.
give me a break. If I support the "freedom of music" and posted links to etree and FurturNET do you honestly think that I am on Kazaa downloading their officially released material (most of which is either a) available freely due to it being live taped or b) it fucking blows (ie Grateful Dead studio albums)).
I have to disagree. There are PLENTY of artists out there that are experimenting w/music. I believe it to be the majority of people who are being stupid and buying crap for music.
The industry puts out a wide range of music, just b/c sales are up on N'SYNC and Brittany doesn't mean that the other bands don't exist.
People like to listen to poppy shit. I am glad the 80's are dead for that exact reason. The largest group buying records are teenagers. They are the ones fueling this shit and ignoring what some of us consider good.
What do I know though, I listen to the Grateful Dead and String Cheese Incident. I'm just a weirdo.
Napster is long dead. There are MANY other (better) options now available. When my roommate used Napster back in the day the average search returned a good enough list to download something at a decent speed. But let's look at Kazaa. The average list resulting from a search is insanely long and the combination of downloads for a higher speed is SO much better. Granted Napster would have incorporated the same thing into itself but that's not the point.
My point is that just b/c Napsters gone does NOT mean that people are no longer able to download/burn music. That's just stupid to say that b/c it is gone there is no more desire to buy CDs.
My theory (based on my own economic situation after the stocks went to shit) is that economics have played a large role in the downturn of everything, including CDs.
Already have an Internet connection, already have a CD burner, already have P2P software, blank CDs running me about $1 a piece/average.
New CDs run me $9.99 - $17.00 depending (especially for smaller bands like I prefer to listen to, SCI, WSP, etc).
What am I going to do? I am going to download the damn MP3s or SHNs and burn them. Just like everyone else is.
Contrary to popular comment here on/., the HPDJ 960c does NOT do what I expect it to do on the Linux platform w/CUPS.
Sure it works, and for B&W it works fine. But when I try to print color photos (on photo paper) it just blows. I have to print over the network to it from a Windows machine.
According to HP this printer will print 15ppm draft B&W and 12ppm draft color. Unfortunatly I have absolutely *no* use for draft mode so what good do these numbers do me? Marketing ploys and mind games. I am thinking for the work I do (B&W mostly) that it is around 5 - 7ppm all text.
I like the printer in that it is about $200 retail, it has both USB and LPTx, and it is relatively quiet compared to my previous printer.
Problems are that it is slow, it runs out of ink WAY too fucking fast (I mean w/my DJ 400c I used 2 B&W cartridges, and 1 color cartridge in 5 years), w/this printer, 2 B&W's and 1 color since December 25th. Note: I printed TONS more shit in 5 years than I have since Dec. 25th.
CUPS makes printing on the Linux machine ok. It's nothing special but it works. I still have to print from Windows if I want color photos to look right. It's slow and it sucks ink.
If you are using it for B&W text mostly, it's affordable, good quality printing (600x600 dpi black, 2400x1200 dpi photo color), and it has an LPTx port for Linux.
if the Linux client is already working why should the users have to wait for it to be released? Don't they understand that is just an unnecessary hassle for Linux users who want to play their game?
Release the Windows client on CD, make the Linux client available on the www/FTP, and be done w/it. Most people are going to buy the CD for Windows anyway, the Linux people are quite familiar w/downloading their own clients from the web.
maybe, but I would think that if these people went to MS someone else would take their place, MS doesn't hoard *all* the smart people of the world.
I would say they are trying to make their hardware harder to crack and software harder to copy and/or emulate (especially being that it is on PC hardware).
They aren't the completely evil company so many of you think.
how is this method going to stop you from typing make menuconfig?
Prior to the ncurses method there was make config, I am sure that no one particularly cared for make menuconfig (I use it but I hate it). If the newbie wants to use a GUI based configuration for kernel compiles that is NOT going to disable menuconfig.
oh yeah, her Finance prof asked what the students thought about taking an Bus. Ethics course. My gf seems to feel that this would stop a lot of the "greed".
I told her that it was a bunch of horseshit. Another class mandated by colleges. Four months of your life, paying little/no attention, onward you go.
What do you think? If ethics were introduced into college courses do you think that would alter people's egos and desire for Greed?
My gf is taking a finance class this semester. She was disturbed by the fact that the first chapter talked about how awful it was that Ben and Jerry's like to give away a ton of money to charity, etc.
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I have fraud protection on my CC too. It's called a Visa Check Card. It has only a limited amount of money in there (beer > anything) and if they really want to steal that # (the only # I use to make purchases online) they are more than welcome to.
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It's great protection for me. I am not really worried about CC # theft, but if it does happen I have not only Visa to back me, I also have the limited amount they can charge.
If you don't have the ability to get a 1x only CC # (like AMEX) then I suggest using this method of personal protection.
Just my worthless
I was working at a call center in OH. I don't know if it applies to WA call centers or not.
yeah, they will call call-centers to make sure that their hold times are within a certain time-constraint (I don't know what the time is). People call up complaining and they call in. When I worked as a CSR I would get several calls a month in which this was the case.
"Just calling in from the State of Washington to check your hold times, we heard they were long, it took me less than 45 seconds to reach you, everything seems ok, thank you for your time."
Who the fuck is the State of WA to determine what the hold times are. Bah.
actually I was hoping that the Windows alternative would kinda force AOL to adopt the GAIM software as its own instead of the shit it uses now.
it would only become exciting if they made it "fictionalized" when one of the PARC guys goes postal gutting the exec's at Xerox for denying that this would be the way of the future, castrating Jobbs for stealing their ideas and calling it a Macintosh, and then cutting out Billy's tongue and his arms before shoving a chainsaw into his chest.
Ahhh, my Homie.
The MPAA and the RIAA want everyone to have a video *player* and a CD *player*. They want you to have a computer w/an Internet connection and an MP3 *player*. They want to charge for per/use fees on the Net and they want to rake you for your CD purchases.
I think we should get the TV ads that have been running recently about having Church in the basement of houses, having a person pulled over for newspapers.
I think everyone is beginning to catch on. Someday they all will and we won't have to listen to the bullshit anymore.
except the smell is not of burning hardware.
the tower could be re-erected (sounds like pr0n I know) quickly in the event that it was actually hit by the shockwave or direct blast. The important part is that the actual bunker remains intact.
So far you are supposed to be happy at the actions they took. If they don't re-release the software after they fix the GPL violations you are free to rant and rave about how Borg-like they are.
Seriously though, they openly admitted that the FSF advised them that they were in violation, they took the software down, and they said they are going to make changes and re-release after they become compliant again.
So far, yay for Epson.
Battlebots was good when it was a once-a-year geek-a-thon, not a show on all the fucking time w/the same boring, old, shit.
/. and other places on the 'Net once a year. It was fun. I got to see a lot of ingenious designs, etc. On TV it was crap (especially when that fat fuck from late night TV had one w/his face on it, fan or not, it was lame).
I was excited to see the tournament on
so you are going to tell me that when I download 5 DiVX movies a day (700+mb each) that I am *NOT* hogging 3.5G of bandwith for that day?
Sure, traffic hogs it, but so do the files. When you have 85% of your cable modem subscribers downloading 700+mb files daily, all day, everyday, you are going to see a significant drop in your overall bandwith.
Again, I will point out that when no one was here in this college town (25000 person difference) that the bandwith was WIDELY available. Once RR started getting everyone back on, the bandwith went to hell.
it has nothing to do w/the advertising, the searches, etc. It has to do SOLELY w/the LARGE downloads that users of P2P networks do.
;)) Now that everyone is back (and I assume loving Kazaa to it's limit) I average about 75 to 100k/s.
Over the summer (when no one was in this little college town) I was steadily get 250+k/s downloads (mostly updating Debian
I am even tempted to call Road Runner and complain (I am just too lazy to fix Win98 and have it running so they can do their tests).
DiVX and MP3s are what kills the bandwith. Not the little "inefficiencies" that P2P authors added in.
give me a break. If I support the "freedom of music" and posted links to etree and FurturNET do you honestly think that I am on Kazaa downloading their officially released material (most of which is either a) available freely due to it being live taped or b) it fucking blows (ie Grateful Dead studio albums)).
they don't get radio play anymore.
I don't like Govt. Mule, RR is ok.
WSP is still a smaller band, bigger than other "Hippy" types, but small none-the-less.
I have to disagree. There are PLENTY of artists out there that are experimenting w/music. I believe it to be the majority of people who are being stupid and buying crap for music.
The industry puts out a wide range of music, just b/c sales are up on N'SYNC and Brittany doesn't mean that the other bands don't exist.
People like to listen to poppy shit. I am glad the 80's are dead for that exact reason. The largest group buying records are teenagers. They are the ones fueling this shit and ignoring what some of us consider good.
What do I know though, I listen to the Grateful Dead and String Cheese Incident. I'm just a weirdo.
Napster is long dead. There are MANY other (better) options now available. When my roommate used Napster back in the day the average search returned a good enough list to download something at a decent speed. But let's look at Kazaa. The average list resulting from a search is insanely long and the combination of downloads for a higher speed is SO much better. Granted Napster would have incorporated the same thing into itself but that's not the point.
My point is that just b/c Napsters gone does NOT mean that people are no longer able to download/burn music. That's just stupid to say that b/c it is gone there is no more desire to buy CDs.
My theory (based on my own economic situation after the stocks went to shit) is that economics have played a large role in the downturn of everything, including CDs.
Already have an Internet connection, already have a CD burner, already have P2P software, blank CDs running me about $1 a piece/average.
New CDs run me $9.99 - $17.00 depending (especially for smaller bands like I prefer to listen to, SCI, WSP, etc).
What am I going to do? I am going to download the damn MP3s or SHNs and burn them. Just like everyone else is.
Stop w/the happy horseshit.
Support freedom of music. etree and FurthurNET
you're kidding? So you mean he was wrong when he said he wasn't an open relay? Lawyers, wrong, never!
Contrary to popular comment here on /., the HPDJ 960c does NOT do what I expect it to do on the Linux platform w/CUPS.
Sure it works, and for B&W it works fine. But when I try to print color photos (on photo paper) it just blows. I have to print over the network to it from a Windows machine.
According to HP this printer will print 15ppm draft B&W and 12ppm draft color. Unfortunatly I have absolutely *no* use for draft mode so what good do these numbers do me? Marketing ploys and mind games. I am thinking for the work I do (B&W mostly) that it is around 5 - 7ppm all text.
I like the printer in that it is about $200 retail, it has both USB and LPTx, and it is relatively quiet compared to my previous printer.
Problems are that it is slow, it runs out of ink WAY too fucking fast (I mean w/my DJ 400c I used 2 B&W cartridges, and 1 color cartridge in 5 years), w/this printer, 2 B&W's and 1 color since December 25th. Note: I printed TONS more shit in 5 years than I have since Dec. 25th.
CUPS makes printing on the Linux machine ok. It's nothing special but it works. I still have to print from Windows if I want color photos to look right. It's slow and it sucks ink.
If you are using it for B&W text mostly, it's affordable, good quality printing (600x600 dpi black, 2400x1200 dpi photo color), and it has an LPTx port for Linux.
YMMV.
if the Linux client is already working why should the users have to wait for it to be released? Don't they understand that is just an unnecessary hassle for Linux users who want to play their game?
Release the Windows client on CD, make the Linux client available on the www/FTP, and be done w/it. Most people are going to buy the CD for Windows anyway, the Linux people are quite familiar w/downloading their own clients from the web.
Just do it.
maybe, but I would think that if these people went to MS someone else would take their place, MS doesn't hoard *all* the smart people of the world.
;)
I would say they are trying to make their hardware harder to crack and software harder to copy and/or emulate (especially being that it is on PC hardware).
They aren't the completely evil company so many of you think.
Well maybe they are but still
how is this method going to stop you from typing make menuconfig?
Prior to the ncurses method there was make config, I am sure that no one particularly cared for make menuconfig (I use it but I hate it). If the newbie wants to use a GUI based configuration for kernel compiles that is NOT going to disable menuconfig.
Get real.
There are two EXCELLENT resources for distribution of music on the Net.
FurthurNET and etree
I *only* support, monitarily, musicians that allow the FREE distribution of their music to their fans...
etree relies on a mailing list and FTP servers to distribute music whereas FurthurNET relies on P2P (in a format much like Limewire, etc).
If you really want your music to go out and don't want to have to pay HIGH bandwith costs, I suggest one of these two methods.
So when you link to NY Times articles that's different?
oh yeah, her Finance prof asked what the students thought about taking an Bus. Ethics course. My gf seems to feel that this would stop a lot of the "greed".
I told her that it was a bunch of horseshit. Another class mandated by colleges. Four months of your life, paying little/no attention, onward you go.
What do you think? If ethics were introduced into college courses do you think that would alter people's egos and desire for Greed?
Greed.
My gf is taking a finance class this semester. She was disturbed by the fact that the first chapter talked about how awful it was that Ben and Jerry's like to give away a ton of money to charity, etc.
Greed.