Actually the christian organizations are primarily for this, course they are for the forcing all porn and sex related sites to be on only this new.xxx domain so as to make it easier to filter, the biggest opponents of this are those porn sites who don't feel they want to be shunted into a "virtual red light district." of sorts.
note that if it has been over 30 days you can't just do a refund on the transaction in paypal, you have to SEND the money back to them.
Paypal charged a 2.9% + 0.30 transaction fee when the money was sent to TrekUnited, and Paypal will charge a 2.9% + 0.30 transaction fee on the return amount.
that's 5.8% plus 60 cents, without TrekUnited getting anything.
they are using those who did not use paypal to balance it out, and they specifically state that any excess left over after the refunds will be donated to tsunami relief funds, a worthy cause. The TrekUnited people are not pocketing a hundred grand, not by any chance.
Also, they never actually received the 3 million, just the $144,173. The 3 Million was in the form of 3 1 Million dollar pledges, which were only to be paid if the campaign worked, they were not in the form of cash and certainly not through paypal.
no, other boards are vunerable to OTHER cracks. This particular worm effects a vunerability in phpBB. If you upgrade your copy of php, but not phpBB you are still vunerable. If you use phpBB upgrade to 2.0.11, do it... do it now!
My mom used to absolutely love MS Bob, she would play GeoSafari with the elephant for hours on end, and would decorate her room with all the icons she used to access things. She found it so easy to use and just plain "cute"
However, there can be no denying it was a dismal failure as you put it.
As Much as I would like to see it, I still think it will be a long time before Linux has any sort of dominence in the desktop market, and certainly not over Windows for a longer time.
As Much as I like linux, it still has a long way to go in ease of use for the average user, and the corporate world's use of MS Office is what will keep people from trying it out. As long as the corporate world keeps using MS Office, home users are unlikely to embrace Open Office as though it is an excellent office suite, it is not as easy to use as MSoffice and does not support MSoffice documents very well at all.
You open a large heavily formatted word document in both a copy of Word 2003 and OOo and tell me you don't believe me, in OOo it will look horrible, and don't even dream of trying to open a powerpoint presentation, especially one made in PowerPoint 2003
You know, I had a strong password generator on my website for a while, but then I realized that most people paranoid enough to use a generator would be paranoid that I would be logging all strong password requests and then trying the results to get into the machines I found in my server logs... It's still there, I use it myself, but I don't tell my users where it is anymore.
Actually I have receive a lot of UK targeted spam, as well as several other european countries, though I am in the US, don't think that spam comes entirely from the USA, the majority of the spam that makes it thorugh my filters can be traced through servers in the netherlands.
The problem goes beyond getting spam targeted for other countries, but things targed at specific groups in general.
For example, I am male, yet I get hundreds of spam going through my filter a day for breast enlargement, I don't need my brest enlarged, in fact since I'm a bit overweight my breasts are far too large as it is, I don't need nor want to make them bigger, yet I get the spam.
Nobody wants spam, don't think you are singled out just because you are in the UK.
Unfortunately, even the simplest of questions can be discriminatory to some people, after all "what color is the sky" could be offensive to people who are colorblind, not to mention could have different connotations to different people, young people in seattle are likely to answer grey.
Questions based on music as mentioned previously are offensive to the deaf, questions based on art or math are offensive to idiots who can't figure them out.
there are people who don't know who painted the Mona Lisa, there are people who don't know 10+10.
The truth is, there is no real way to handle this issue, except for the telephone or VoiP, but even then you are back to being offensive to deaf people who have to use tts technology and can you verify that the tts wasn't computer generated to create spam? There is no solution except a combination.
I say keep using the images, they make sense, but have a "if you cannot see this image, call us at ###-###-#### and our customer service department will be happy to help you" The deaf people can see the image, the blind people can talk to the staff, but what about the Helen Kellers? Oh dear....
The truth is, it isn't purposeful discrimination against anybody, companies try their best to accomodate everyone but they will always come up short, because there will always be someone inconvenienced by your efforts.
The only real option is to eliminate the anti-spam protection, that won't offend anyone and will make the spammers very happy.........
I of course don't want to make the spammers happy but really... what can you do?
I'm not saying people don't pirate Potter... many of them have good reason, a lot of stores have a hard time keeping copies of the book in, where do the potter starved seekers go? to the net of course!
Also I admit I took a copy of the torrented HP audiobook, only after already purchasing and completely reading the full hardcopy, and I will probably purchase the actual audiobook at some point or another as I don't really want to spend the time to burn like 20 cds to be able to listen to it on a CD player.
Personally I don't use SMS for texting from one phone to another, but as a notification feature from the net. I have setup a special e-mail forwarder on my domain to send to the e-mail to sms gateway for verizon (So that I didn't have to remember the sudomain of the gateway) and have several of my monitoring software set to send a short e-mail to that address whenever something goes down, also I've given the address of the forwarder to a few key members of my staff and family for them to quickly get a message to me wherever I am. I often find this is better then getting a call, why waste my minutes to tell me something simple?
Not to mention the quality difference and I think consumers of Harry Potter are happy to pay for it while they are not for the crap that the Hulk was.
That was my point, the statement I was replying to was people don't pirate books because they are hard to pirate, my response is people don't pirate Harry Potter because they are happy to pay for something good, people pirate movies because a lot of movies are crap and don't deserve the cost of a movie ticket.
The author was not pointing out the plan, just the result. A Great deal of matrix fans thought the Matrix Reloaded was no where near as good as the first one. I'm one of them, and unlike some, I'm not knocking the ending, I liked the ending, I liked the movie, but it did seem faded compared to The Matrix. Granted The Matrix was something incredibly hard to live up to for a sequal. I liked Reloaded, and am looking forward to Revolutions, but when you compare Reloaded to the original, it is a tad faded, engaging story is sacrificed for enlarged special effects and a completely unnecessary sex scene that added absolutely nothing to the story whatsoever and should not have been there, or at the very least should have been shortened, then perhaps they could have knocked the rating down to PG13 and got a larger audience.
Harry on the other hand gets better and better with each new installment. I read the original and thought "not bad, I've seen better" and left it on a shelf for months going back to my normal reading routine, then one day when I heard that a 4th book had been released I decided to give it another go and try the Chamber of Secrets and noted that it was better, at that point I didn't stop reading until I had read all 4 of the books that were out at the time (a matter of 3 days). Now I read OotP in about 12 hours (decided to read it slowly) and it has toped them all, I can't imagine how Rowling will continue to push the limits of her imagination for us the readers.
That's the difference the author was pointing out.
Although unlikely that many would do this, has nobody considered the fact that printers are more common then cd burners? A Pirated copy of the book can easily be printed, and if you happen to have a laser printer, it wouldn't be that expensive, 2 reams of paper would cost you less then $3, and generally speaking the toner cartridge would far outlast that print.
If you REALLY want a pirated copy of the book that you could curl up with, it wouldn't be that difficult to acquire...
Matter of fact; most people who read Harry Potter don't read much else...
I must disagree with this false statement, it has been my experience that the children who are being enraptured by Harry's world are truly starting to hunger for literature, and as there is a limited supply of Potter to read, they expand their collection. I know 7 year olds who, having read all of the potters, have gone on while waiting for book 5 to read J.R.R. Tolkein and C.S. Lewis and other great classic literature. I doubt if you would find many 7 year olds reading Tolkein 10 years ago...
Let me ask you this question, ok let's say we just send the probes, why?
Why continue to send probes to Mars if we don't intend to send humans there, there is nothing interesting about mars except the thought of future ability to send humans there, perhaps to colonize it, and is there really a NEED to do that? Just human curiosity.
The whole point of going to Mars in the first place is Human curiosity. Tell me, if we never personally go to Mars, what good does sending probes there do to us here on Earth? If we never went to the moon, what point would be studying it from afar? Indeed, most, if not all scientific experiments that take place in space now are simply to satisfy human curiosity, indeed most scientific experiments that take place here on EARTH are just to satisfy human curiosity. If you remove the humans from the equation, there is no point in doing the experiment in the first place! So what if a machine can conduct the experiments in space? We are the reasons the experiments are being done, so shouldn't we monitor the results ourselves?
Although not completely. Until January I lived in Dallas TX where Movie Theaters were pleantiful, and the only times I downloaded movies from P2P were when I saw them in theaters already and enjoyed the movie enough that I wanted to have it available to view at my leisure until the DVD release. Indeed, being a Potter fan myself I downloaded the CoS movie only after seeing it in theaters with my young nephew twice. And had a copy of the DVD preordered as soon as the release date was scheduled. I had never downloaded movies that were already out on Video and DVD because it was simple for me to rent them, in fact I worked at Blockbuster mostly so that I could rent for free and get a discount on purchasing the ones I really liked.
Now things are different for me. Now I live in the small town of Robbinsville, NC. There are 2 video rental stores both with poor selections and no movie theaters at all. I love movies, so yes, I admit, I download movies that I used to go to theaters to see, cause otherwise I have to wait for the rental. For movies that have been out a few months however... I now use netflix as my rental source, I still don't prefer to P2P, as the quality isn't good and I personally believe that if I like something, I should pay for it so that the people who make it get the incentive to make more things like that.
Money makes the world work, but the article does make a point, everyone targets the younger crowd who have no money to spend, yet they continue to raise their prices higher and higher till their target audience can't afford it anymore, of course they would turn to P2P. I mean movie ticket prices are somewhat rediculous, there are places that it costs $10 for a matinee ticket! Why would a kid want to shell out $10 for 2 hours of mindless entertainment, when they could pay $17 for a book that will entertain them for days. Even the audiobook version is 24 hours of entertainment. And what Rowling can do for young minds is far more magical then anything Harry learns at Hogwarts. For a long time children have fallen away from reading, the instant gratification world in which we live has bred children to not want to read, and in many cases, not be able to read. Yet J.K. Rowling has the most amazing ability to grab minds child and adult alike and make them crave more and more. Each book she releases longer then the previous, this one nearly 900 pages in length, yet children as young as 6 make it through it not once but multiple times. And when Rowling can't write fast enough for these eager readers, the children actually look to OTHER books. Rowling has done more for literacy then anyone in the late 20th century.
Sadly it won't be enough, we live in far too much of a video world, Children come home from school and immediately turn on the TV to watch increasingly disgusting cartoons or play mindless video games, they do this until they go to bed, then get up and continue the next morning before school, when the weekends come instead of sitting outside under a tree reading a good book, they spend the whole day inside burning images into their eyes, and when they cannot get enough through TV and what movies they can afford to see in theaters, they hop online and download the rest of the available movies. Would the best thing be a reasonable price on entertainment? Or less entertainment with more quality to it?
Actually its interference that causes the signal to degrade so quickly here, plus of course there's the boosting of signal for the project with a high powered amp, but straight up should be pretty decent LOS in the first place.
once you get far enough, there's not even much atomospheric interferance.
Your sales tech's sole point with going with the enterprise edition was that it was more up to date then the standard, but up to date changes daily, I prefer to use debian and not install what I don't need to begin with, you install debian it's just debian, then you install by a simple means what you need, you need apache, install apache, you need postfix install postfix, don't just go with the red hat install button that installs 200 daemons you are never going to need that are going to have 800 security vunerabilities found that you'll never patch because you didn't even notice in the first place that it was installed.
Answer: go Debian, apt-get install and then periodically do apt-get upgrade to auto-install the latest security patches, you're good to go!
Actually Apple has ended their agreement with Microsoft for MS Office for the mac anyway. They don't even ship Macs with IE anymore, so in the near future, I imagine that Mac users will be forced to use OpenOffice or an alternative.
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Actually the christian organizations are primarily for this, course they are for the forcing all porn and sex related sites to be on only this new .xxx domain so as to make it easier to filter, the biggest opponents of this are those porn sites who don't feel they want to be shunted into a "virtual red light district." of sorts.
note that if it has been over 30 days you can't just do a refund on the transaction in paypal, you have to SEND the money back to them.
Paypal charged a 2.9% + 0.30 transaction fee when the money was sent to TrekUnited, and Paypal will charge a 2.9% + 0.30 transaction fee on the return amount.
that's 5.8% plus 60 cents, without TrekUnited getting anything.
they are using those who did not use paypal to balance it out, and they specifically state that any excess left over after the refunds will be donated to tsunami relief funds, a worthy cause. The TrekUnited people are not pocketing a hundred grand, not by any chance.
Also, they never actually received the 3 million, just the $144,173. The 3 Million was in the form of 3 1 Million dollar pledges, which were only to be paid if the campaign worked, they were not in the form of cash and certainly not through paypal.
no, other boards are vunerable to OTHER cracks. This particular worm effects a vunerability in phpBB. If you upgrade your copy of php, but not phpBB you are still vunerable. If you use phpBB upgrade to 2.0.11, do it... do it now!
My mom used to absolutely love MS Bob, she would play GeoSafari with the elephant for hours on end, and would decorate her room with all the icons she used to access things. She found it so easy to use and just plain "cute" However, there can be no denying it was a dismal failure as you put it. As Much as I would like to see it, I still think it will be a long time before Linux has any sort of dominence in the desktop market, and certainly not over Windows for a longer time. As Much as I like linux, it still has a long way to go in ease of use for the average user, and the corporate world's use of MS Office is what will keep people from trying it out. As long as the corporate world keeps using MS Office, home users are unlikely to embrace Open Office as though it is an excellent office suite, it is not as easy to use as MSoffice and does not support MSoffice documents very well at all. You open a large heavily formatted word document in both a copy of Word 2003 and OOo and tell me you don't believe me, in OOo it will look horrible, and don't even dream of trying to open a powerpoint presentation, especially one made in PowerPoint 2003
You know, I had a strong password generator on my website for a while, but then I realized that most people paranoid enough to use a generator would be paranoid that I would be logging all strong password requests and then trying the results to get into the machines I found in my server logs... It's still there, I use it myself, but I don't tell my users where it is anymore.
And no that wasn't a blacklisted one either, I have lots of messages that end up over 100 but they are on the blacklist for one reason or another.
The problem goes beyond getting spam targeted for other countries, but things targed at specific groups in general.
For example, I am male, yet I get hundreds of spam going through my filter a day for breast enlargement, I don't need my brest enlarged, in fact since I'm a bit overweight my breasts are far too large as it is, I don't need nor want to make them bigger, yet I get the spam.
Nobody wants spam, don't think you are singled out just because you are in the UK.
Questions based on music as mentioned previously are offensive to the deaf, questions based on art or math are offensive to idiots who can't figure them out.
there are people who don't know who painted the Mona Lisa, there are people who don't know 10+10.
The truth is, there is no real way to handle this issue, except for the telephone or VoiP, but even then you are back to being offensive to deaf people who have to use tts technology and can you verify that the tts wasn't computer generated to create spam? There is no solution except a combination.
I say keep using the images, they make sense, but have a "if you cannot see this image, call us at ###-###-#### and our customer service department will be happy to help you" The deaf people can see the image, the blind people can talk to the staff, but what about the Helen Kellers? Oh dear....
The truth is, it isn't purposeful discrimination against anybody, companies try their best to accomodate everyone but they will always come up short, because there will always be someone inconvenienced by your efforts.
The only real option is to eliminate the anti-spam protection, that won't offend anyone and will make the spammers very happy.........
I of course don't want to make the spammers happy but really... what can you do?
then you get the "discrimination against idiots who can't figure out the problem" campaign....
I'm not saying people don't pirate Potter... many of them have good reason, a lot of stores have a hard time keeping copies of the book in, where do the potter starved seekers go? to the net of course! Also I admit I took a copy of the torrented HP audiobook, only after already purchasing and completely reading the full hardcopy, and I will probably purchase the actual audiobook at some point or another as I don't really want to spend the time to burn like 20 cds to be able to listen to it on a CD player.
Personally I don't use SMS for texting from one phone to another, but as a notification feature from the net. I have setup a special e-mail forwarder on my domain to send to the e-mail to sms gateway for verizon (So that I didn't have to remember the sudomain of the gateway) and have several of my monitoring software set to send a short e-mail to that address whenever something goes down, also I've given the address of the forwarder to a few key members of my staff and family for them to quickly get a message to me wherever I am. I often find this is better then getting a call, why waste my minutes to tell me something simple?
I was too, but the key word was "many". None of my friends wanted to read large books, and my younger brother never read anything till his late teens.
That was my point, the statement I was replying to was people don't pirate books because they are hard to pirate, my response is people don't pirate Harry Potter because they are happy to pay for something good, people pirate movies because a lot of movies are crap and don't deserve the cost of a movie ticket.
Harry on the other hand gets better and better with each new installment. I read the original and thought "not bad, I've seen better" and left it on a shelf for months going back to my normal reading routine, then one day when I heard that a 4th book had been released I decided to give it another go and try the Chamber of Secrets and noted that it was better, at that point I didn't stop reading until I had read all 4 of the books that were out at the time (a matter of 3 days). Now I read OotP in about 12 hours (decided to read it slowly) and it has toped them all, I can't imagine how Rowling will continue to push the limits of her imagination for us the readers.
That's the difference the author was pointing out.
Although unlikely that many would do this, has nobody considered the fact that printers are more common then cd burners? A Pirated copy of the book can easily be printed, and if you happen to have a laser printer, it wouldn't be that expensive, 2 reams of paper would cost you less then $3, and generally speaking the toner cartridge would far outlast that print. If you REALLY want a pirated copy of the book that you could curl up with, it wouldn't be that difficult to acquire...
I must disagree with this false statement, it has been my experience that the children who are being enraptured by Harry's world are truly starting to hunger for literature, and as there is a limited supply of Potter to read, they expand their collection. I know 7 year olds who, having read all of the potters, have gone on while waiting for book 5 to read J.R.R. Tolkein and C.S. Lewis and other great classic literature. I doubt if you would find many 7 year olds reading Tolkein 10 years ago...
Um, I believe the article was here because of the P2P element, as Slashdot has covered P2P related stories for some time.
Why continue to send probes to Mars if we don't intend to send humans there, there is nothing interesting about mars except the thought of future ability to send humans there, perhaps to colonize it, and is there really a NEED to do that? Just human curiosity.
The whole point of going to Mars in the first place is Human curiosity. Tell me, if we never personally go to Mars, what good does sending probes there do to us here on Earth? If we never went to the moon, what point would be studying it from afar? Indeed, most, if not all scientific experiments that take place in space now are simply to satisfy human curiosity, indeed most scientific experiments that take place here on EARTH are just to satisfy human curiosity. If you remove the humans from the equation, there is no point in doing the experiment in the first place! So what if a machine can conduct the experiments in space? We are the reasons the experiments are being done, so shouldn't we monitor the results ourselves?
Now things are different for me. Now I live in the small town of Robbinsville, NC. There are 2 video rental stores both with poor selections and no movie theaters at all. I love movies, so yes, I admit, I download movies that I used to go to theaters to see, cause otherwise I have to wait for the rental. For movies that have been out a few months however... I now use netflix as my rental source, I still don't prefer to P2P, as the quality isn't good and I personally believe that if I like something, I should pay for it so that the people who make it get the incentive to make more things like that.
Money makes the world work, but the article does make a point, everyone targets the younger crowd who have no money to spend, yet they continue to raise their prices higher and higher till their target audience can't afford it anymore, of course they would turn to P2P. I mean movie ticket prices are somewhat rediculous, there are places that it costs $10 for a matinee ticket! Why would a kid want to shell out $10 for 2 hours of mindless entertainment, when they could pay $17 for a book that will entertain them for days. Even the audiobook version is 24 hours of entertainment. And what Rowling can do for young minds is far more magical then anything Harry learns at Hogwarts. For a long time children have fallen away from reading, the instant gratification world in which we live has bred children to not want to read, and in many cases, not be able to read. Yet J.K. Rowling has the most amazing ability to grab minds child and adult alike and make them crave more and more. Each book she releases longer then the previous, this one nearly 900 pages in length, yet children as young as 6 make it through it not once but multiple times. And when Rowling can't write fast enough for these eager readers, the children actually look to OTHER books. Rowling has done more for literacy then anyone in the late 20th century.
Sadly it won't be enough, we live in far too much of a video world, Children come home from school and immediately turn on the TV to watch increasingly disgusting cartoons or play mindless video games, they do this until they go to bed, then get up and continue the next morning before school, when the weekends come instead of sitting outside under a tree reading a good book, they spend the whole day inside burning images into their eyes, and when they cannot get enough through TV and what movies they can afford to see in theaters, they hop online and download the rest of the available movies. Would the best thing be a reasonable price on entertainment? Or less entertainment with more quality to it?
Actually its interference that causes the signal to degrade so quickly here, plus of course there's the boosting of signal for the project with a high powered amp, but straight up should be pretty decent LOS in the first place. once you get far enough, there's not even much atomospheric interferance.
Your sales tech's sole point with going with the enterprise edition was that it was more up to date then the standard, but up to date changes daily, I prefer to use debian and not install what I don't need to begin with, you install debian it's just debian, then you install by a simple means what you need, you need apache, install apache, you need postfix install postfix, don't just go with the red hat install button that installs 200 daemons you are never going to need that are going to have 800 security vunerabilities found that you'll never patch because you didn't even notice in the first place that it was installed. Answer: go Debian, apt-get install and then periodically do apt-get upgrade to auto-install the latest security patches, you're good to go!
Very Good one, I agree tho, wouldn't it be lovely to open up the net to the spam of the ENTIERE galaxy...
Actually Apple has ended their agreement with Microsoft for MS Office for the mac anyway. They don't even ship Macs with IE anymore, so in the near future, I imagine that Mac users will be forced to use OpenOffice or an alternative.