This happened right in front of me on the way home one night. The guy behind him reported that he was paying a lot of attention to a little box in his hand...
Yeah from a liberty perspective you ask "wait, why can't I spend every weekend quivering in bed if I want to, but I definitely see why those responsible for social order (and health insurance:p) would have an interest in keeping people active, buying hamburgers, that sort of thing.
Then you don't actually understand the "liberty perspective." -- "[..] responsible for social order"? Really?
DNRTFA but there's no misconduct in sending what amounts to a cease & desist to someone. Anyone can do this, lawyer or not. A C&D is not a court action, it's just a scary looking letter on expensive paper.
Congratulations Steve, I'm installing OSX in a VM soon.
Installing OSX on non-Apple hardware is against the License, so you might as well just download yourself a copy since you'll be in "violation" of said license either way.
As someone running Windows 7 final (MSDN), I have to say that it's pretty ridiculous to expect end users to "trim the fat" from their OS.
That said, I haven't had any such issues except once when I opened the system information dialog and inadvertently triggered the refresh of my Windows Experience Index measurement. This spawned a background process to run some benchmarks, and continued running after I closed the dialog. Took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on.
The article summary refers to a 2-year-old study that puts contamination closer to 67%, and now the most recent study puts it at around 90%. So the point is that the contamination has increased.
Wait- the longer money is in circulation, the more people (and cocaine, apparently) it comes in contact with? Unpossible!
Twitter (read: mircoblogging) has tons of potential just waiting for imaginative developers.
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Funny slip that you should call it "mircoblogging" since Twitter is basically logged IRC without channels (hashtags even use #) and a dysfunctional search. Welcome to 15 years ago, kids.
I guess they could have been lying and merely moved my SSNs to another database, but I don't imagine that being a good idea as a record of my request would be on file, and any future breach that resulted in exposure of an SSN they said they deleted would only result in me going after them for lying as well. Why they'd risk increasing their legal liability is beyond me.
It may shock you to learn that the people who answer toll-free customer service calls are not well-educated legal counsel.
I found a customer at the bank I have a business account at is using my EIN as his SS# They give someone a mortgage to someone based on my s-corps financial filings (I guess). I looked into it, we can't get the house. The bank didn't seem to care much either.
Instead of just replying 'BS', I'll say this needs more details.
EINs and SSNs aren't even the same number of digits.. (NN-NNNNNN vs NNN-NN-NNNN).
I don't see what the bank sending a cheque to the other bank achieves. A processing delay?
Most companies that issue bills (utilities, etc.) accept electronic payments. But some smaller companies (landlords) don't. So for the ones who don't accept them- your bill pay service, as a courtesy, will print an actual check and mail it to the recipient.
Harness ocean waves...."Doesn't that take energy from the environment?"...from a real Slashdotter.
I didn't know that Slashdot now counts as a green group.
It doesn't. We like to think that we've more on the ball (intellectually speaking) than the average Joe but, as that comment clearly demonstrates... some of us don't.
I'd hate to think that some of us don't on the ball.
He'd have this info if you had to buy the subscription directly from the WSJ rather than through Amazon. It's just a matter of bargaining with Amazon for a bigger slice of the revenue.
Yeah, but that doesn't make a Slashdot story and comment thread for us to all speculate in.
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This happened right in front of me on the way home one night. The guy behind him reported that he was paying a lot of attention to a little box in his hand...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28154298@N05/sets/72157605928214101/detail/
Most of that will probably buff right out..
So I guess that makes a good argument for putting walls across interstates?
Or not letting stupid people drive giant metal buses.
If you were naive enough to get a trojan to begin with, almost certainly the best "software" (OS?) for you is going to be not going online at all.
Yeah from a liberty perspective you ask "wait, why can't I spend every weekend quivering in bed if I want to, but I definitely see why those responsible for social order (and health insurance :p) would have an interest in keeping people active, buying hamburgers, that sort of thing.
Then you don't actually understand the "liberty perspective." -- "[..] responsible for social order"? Really?
...I think you just convinced me to go buy some expensive paper and take up a new hobby...
Funny enough, since that's probably how the firm in question got started. /satireplzdontsueme
DNRTFA but there's no misconduct in sending what amounts to a cease & desist to someone. Anyone can do this, lawyer or not. A C&D is not a court action, it's just a scary looking letter on expensive paper.
IANAL.
Not on a privately owned, for-profit's property (Flickr.com) - no. It never has.
$29 for Snow Leopard!?
Congratulations Steve, I'm installing OSX in a VM soon.
Installing OSX on non-Apple hardware is against the License, so you might as well just download yourself a copy since you'll be in "violation" of said license either way.
Looks like Microsoft took a page from the open source play book of only accepting quality code.
lol.
As someone running Windows 7 final (MSDN), I have to say that it's pretty ridiculous to expect end users to "trim the fat" from their OS.
That said, I haven't had any such issues except once when I opened the system information dialog and inadvertently triggered the refresh of my Windows Experience Index measurement. This spawned a background process to run some benchmarks, and continued running after I closed the dialog. Took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on.
The article summary refers to a 2-year-old study that puts contamination closer to 67%, and now the most recent study puts it at around 90%. So the point is that the contamination has increased.
Wait- the longer money is in circulation, the more people (and cocaine, apparently) it comes in contact with? Unpossible!
Silly noobs.. they should just use http://stashbox.org/ and encrypt the binaries with a private key then base64 encode them.
We're really, really screwed if someone who is determined and knowledgeable decides to make some widespread malware. Think Conficker, with more doom.
Twitter (read: mircoblogging) has tons of potential just waiting for imaginative developers.
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Funny slip that you should call it "mircoblogging" since Twitter is basically logged IRC without channels (hashtags even use #) and a dysfunctional search. Welcome to 15 years ago, kids.
I guess they could have been lying and merely moved my SSNs to another database, but I don't imagine that being a good idea as a record of my request would be on file, and any future breach that resulted in exposure of an SSN they said they deleted would only result in me going after them for lying as well. Why they'd risk increasing their legal liability is beyond me.
It may shock you to learn that the people who answer toll-free customer service calls are not well-educated legal counsel.
Do you have a government vehicle?
Yes, I drive a Chevy.
I found a customer at the bank I have a business account at is using my EIN as his SS# They give someone a mortgage to someone based on my s-corps financial filings (I guess). I looked into it, we can't get the house. The bank didn't seem to care much either.
Instead of just replying 'BS', I'll say this needs more details.
EINs and SSNs aren't even the same number of digits.. (NN-NNNNNN vs NNN-NN-NNNN).
I have read many excel sheets, edited, and even created some basic ones on my phone. Been doing it for years.
Some *AA exec is wetting his pants, but the public WILL NOT put up with this.
This kind of intrusion is a revolution just waiting to happen, sheeple or not.
I wish i had the confidence in the American public that you do. Im afraid most will just accept it and bend over.
Yeah, what keeps me up at night is wondering whether Americans will take up figurative arms over TV commercials.
A programmer who has never quite recovered from the 2001-2002 downturn.
You're doing something wrong.
I don't see what the bank sending a cheque to the other bank achieves. A processing delay?
Most companies that issue bills (utilities, etc.) accept electronic payments. But some smaller companies (landlords) don't. So for the ones who don't accept them- your bill pay service, as a courtesy, will print an actual check and mail it to the recipient.
I didn't know that Slashdot now counts as a green group.
It doesn't. We like to think that we've more on the ball (intellectually speaking) than the average Joe but, as that comment clearly demonstrates ... some of us don't.
I'd hate to think that some of us don't on the ball.
He'd have this info if you had to buy the subscription directly from the WSJ rather than through Amazon. It's just a matter of bargaining with Amazon for a bigger slice of the revenue.
Yeah, but that doesn't make a Slashdot story and comment thread for us to all speculate in.
Congratulations, you're the only Discover cardholder left on the planet!
And there goes Apple's monopoly. I can't say this is a bad thing, it gives users another option, without severely damaging Apple.
God forbid it should severely damage Apple. Companies shouldn't lose marketshare or profits over stupid decisions.
Yes, we will. If Ubuntu changes the shade of their logo it'll make the front page of Slashdot.