Microsoft did not set a timetable for its investigation, but said it may eventually release a patch to address the problem. Meanwhile, the company recommended that people follow basic security procedures, including the use of firewalls, software updates and antivirus software.
How many people are going to give their credit card/bank/paypal info to these sites thinking they are safe because they have norton antivirus or zone alarm running. They are basically telling people not to worry when this is a huge security flaw - the only way to be safe is to type the URL in instead of following links.
It shouldn't matter which carrier you use. You should call amazon and tell them you didn't get the package. If they tell you "too bad, they shipped it," just call the credit card company and tell them you ordered something and never received it - they'll reverse the charge. Let amazon and the post office fight it out, you shouldn't have to pay because amazon is dumb enough to ship without insurance and the post office is dumb enough to leave packages without have them signed for.
Why not have police randomly stop people and hook them up to a lie detector to see if they've committed any crimes. Or better yet, just have police randomly search homes to make sure there's nothing illegal going on.
I should have been more clear. If you live in one of the states I listed, you are entitled to one free credit report per year regardless of whether or not you are denied credit.
For all states, you can get a free report after you are denied credit - you are right about this.
If you live in one of the following states you are entitled to one free credit report/year: Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Vermont.
As far as getting one when you are denied credit, all it really takes is an inquiry. The credit agency doesn't know if the credit card, loan office, etc. approved or denied you. So if you've applied for anything recently you can call up and get a free report.
Call these numbers and follow the prompts for having been denied credit:
Most credit cards double the manufacturer's warranty (up to a year) automatically. I called my CC co. before buying my last laptop to make sure it would extend the warranty for it, and cover everything the original warranty does. They told me yes and yes.
Since I usually upgrade more often than every two years, I'm always covered without buying extended warranties.
I don't think they have to stop the cars to check. They should be able to tell by driving behind them. Apparently a nice side effect is that the exhaust smells like french fries (or some other fast food - I can't remember exactly what).
I did find what looks like the x86 64 bit version, but it's dated 2/12/2003, so I'm not sure if this it it. ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/9 .0/x8 6_64/
Terahertz radiation lies on the boundary between radio and light waves and is far more difficult to detect and analyse than either, but is of huge interest for medical, security, environmental and communication uses; the technology could, for instance, theoretically carry wireless data at terabit speeds.
Do these waves travel faster than 2.4 GHz waves? That would be news - I was under the impression that all waves traveled at the same speed.
I don't have a problem with locking them up, but it seems that non-violent offenders are often getting the same or more jail time than violent offenders.
Here's a story about a man who kidnapped, tortured and abused a girl then tried to kill her by injecting her with bleach. His sentence? 10 years - he'll be out in half that time.
Sure, give crackers jail time but make it appropriate for the crime. Maybe 3 months in jail, or probation. When I see someone like Kevin Mitnick get 7 years, and violent criminals who, in my opinion, should never be allowed out of prison get the same sentences, it pisses me off.
The supermarket chain lets workers take off to volunteer and to care for sick pets
How cool is that? I'll bet there aren't many companies that will give you time off to take care of your dog when it gets sick. Until it was law many didn't even offer maternity leave. Some companies just get it. Treat your employees well, and they'll be happier and treat the customers well.
What I'm getting at is, how do we know that this site isn't just a plant by Segway's marketing agency?
I'm pretty sure it is. This page made me suspicious when the author claims getting rid of a car will save $16,000/year. $10,000/year for payments and insurance? What kind of car is he driving? I would say $300 or so per month is a typical car payment, and my insurance with collision and tons of liability is $600/year. Their estimate of $5,000/yr for fuel and maintenance? If this person really drives 100,000 miles per year, I'm not sure a segway will cut it.
I stand corrected. I thought the new drive could write at 4x. Though I remember hearing about people having trouble with higher-speed media, I was under the impression that it could write 4x.
For instance, if you get free storage from a free hosting site, and you put, say, child porno on that site, do you own the child porno? No. So you can't get busted for posession. The trick is to keep stuff off of your computer and host it on someone else's computer.
OK, I'm going to call bullshit on this one. I simply don't believe that they can't bust you because you don't own the computer it's on. The ISP would be able to show who is using the storage space from their logs.
I'd bet that if you rented one of those self storage garages and stored drugs in there you'd get busted just as if the drugs were in your house/apartment.
Sounds like they've mentioned it on the website to me.....
Have you tried to find it on their website? Check their front page. Nothing there. How about under "help?" Nope. Maybe under "SafeHarbor (Rules & Safety)" - sounds promising. Nothing there either.
I search for a couple of minutes and didn't find it. Do you think someone not even looking for it would find the warning?
>>Hint: Try not splittig your infinitives, you sound like a moron. >He didn't split an infinitive. The sentence can be cleared up by changingin "who" to "whom" and adding a couple commas.
Huh? What the f*@# does who or whom have to do with a split infinitive? The post was referring to (Hint: Next time, try using decent setence structure to not confuse your point.)
I even put it in bold so you can see what a split infinitive is.
now we have to deal with grammar nazis who don't know basic grammar or spelling
I would have thought it was two drives (since I haven't seen any drives larger than 250 GB), but I don't see how you can fit two drives in a 6.7x1.7x10.6" case. I have an external firewire drive and it's only about an inch smaller width and depth - not much extra room in the case either. And why is there only a 2 MB cache in the 500 GB version? Since every drive I've seen has at least 2 MB cache wouldn't a two drive RAID have at least 4 MB of cache?
I have a university account which, for 4 years has never received spam - mainly because only 5 or so people have the address (family, a couple of friends and girlfriend). For everything and everyone else I use a couple of free webmail accounts.
This summer my girlfriend was in europe, and set up an excite account so she could email friends while on vacation. Very shortly after getting email from her I started getting tons of spam, many with excite as a return address. I forwarded them to abuse and postmaster@excite and they bounced - mailbox full.
Finally I had to set up a server side filter that filters out anything from excite.com, but I still get several spams per day from other sources. There is no doubt in my mind that excite harvested my email address from the to field and sold it to spammers.
ummm...did you even read the link you posted. It compares 6 different 9700s. The powerbook has a 9000, and I don't think this card will fit in my laptop anyway.
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Microsoft did not set a timetable for its investigation, but said it may eventually release a patch to address the problem. Meanwhile, the company recommended that people follow basic security procedures, including the use of firewalls, software updates and antivirus software.
How many people are going to give their credit card/bank/paypal info to these sites thinking they are safe because they have norton antivirus or zone alarm running. They are basically telling people not to worry when this is a huge security flaw - the only way to be safe is to type the URL in instead of following links.
It shouldn't matter which carrier you use. You should call amazon and tell them you didn't get the package. If they tell you "too bad, they shipped it," just call the credit card company and tell them you ordered something and never received it - they'll reverse the charge. Let amazon and the post office fight it out, you shouldn't have to pay because amazon is dumb enough to ship without insurance and the post office is dumb enough to leave packages without have them signed for.
Why not have police randomly stop people and hook them up to a lie detector to see if they've committed any crimes. Or better yet, just have police randomly search homes to make sure there's nothing illegal going on.
I should have been more clear. If you live in one of the states I listed, you are entitled to one free credit report per year regardless of whether or not you are denied credit.
For all states, you can get a free report after you are denied credit - you are right about this.
If you live in one of the following states you are entitled to one free credit report/year:
Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Vermont.
As far as getting one when you are denied credit, all it really takes is an inquiry. The credit agency doesn't know if the credit card, loan office, etc. approved or denied you. So if you've applied for anything recently you can call up and get a free report.
Call these numbers and follow the prompts for having been denied credit:
Experian 800.353.0809
Equifax 888.567.8688
TransUnion 800.680.7293
Most credit cards double the manufacturer's warranty (up to a year) automatically. I called my CC co. before buying my last laptop to make sure it would extend the warranty for it, and cover everything the original warranty does. They told me yes and yes.
Since I usually upgrade more often than every two years, I'm always covered without buying extended warranties.
I don't think they have to stop the cars to check. They should be able to tell by driving behind them. Apparently a nice side effect is that the exhaust smells like french fries (or some other fast food - I can't remember exactly what).
this guy's an idiot. Everyone knows that you should use RAID 5 (or 0+1) with something as unreliable as floppies.
I did find what looks like the x86 64 bit version, but it's dated 2/12/2003, so I'm not sure if this it it.9 .0/x8 6_64/
ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/mandrake/Mandrake/
Not only that, a lot of USB cams can see IR light. Point the IR port of your palm/laptop/jeteye at the cam and initiate a transfer.
I seem to remember that it looked blue when detected by my IBM USB camera for some reason.
Do these waves travel faster than 2.4 GHz waves? That would be news - I was under the impression that all waves traveled at the same speed.
Here's a story about a man who kidnapped, tortured and abused a girl then tried to kill her by injecting her with bleach. His sentence? 10 years - he'll be out in half that time.
Sure, give crackers jail time but make it appropriate for the crime. Maybe 3 months in jail, or probation. When I see someone like Kevin Mitnick get 7 years, and violent criminals who, in my opinion, should never be allowed out of prison get the same sentences, it pisses me off.
Wow, it can fast forward live TV? Does it create some sort of wormhole to grab TV signals out of the future?
I might get one just so I'll know the outcome of football games before they're over. I might be able to finally pay off my student loan.
The supermarket chain lets workers take off to volunteer and to care for sick pets
How cool is that? I'll bet there aren't many companies that will give you time off to take care of your dog when it gets sick. Until it was law many didn't even offer maternity leave. Some companies just get it. Treat your employees well, and they'll be happier and treat the customers well.
I'm pretty sure it is. This page made me suspicious when the author claims getting rid of a car will save $16,000/year. $10,000/year for payments and insurance? What kind of car is he driving? I would say $300 or so per month is a typical car payment, and my insurance with collision and tons of liability is $600/year. Their estimate of $5,000/yr for fuel and maintenance? If this person really drives 100,000 miles per year, I'm not sure a segway will cut it.
The entire site is an ad for segway.
I stand corrected. I thought the new drive could write at 4x. Though I remember hearing about people having trouble with higher-speed media, I was under the impression that it could write 4x.
Actually they did update the superdrive. It writes DVD-R at 4x and DVD-RW at 2x.
OK, I'm going to call bullshit on this one. I simply don't believe that they can't bust you because you don't own the computer it's on. The ISP would be able to show who is using the storage space from their logs.
I'd bet that if you rented one of those self storage garages and stored drugs in there you'd get busted just as if the drugs were in your house/apartment.
Have you tried to find it on their website? Check their front page. Nothing there. How about under "help?" Nope. Maybe under "SafeHarbor (Rules & Safety)" - sounds promising. Nothing there either.
I search for a couple of minutes and didn't find it. Do you think someone not even looking for it would find the warning?
>He didn't split an infinitive. The sentence can be cleared up by changingin "who" to "whom" and adding a couple commas.
Huh? What the f*@# does who or whom have to do with a split infinitive? The post was referring to
(Hint: Next time, try using decent setence structure to not confuse your point.)
I even put it in bold so you can see what a split infinitive is.
now we have to deal with grammar nazis who don't know basic grammar or spelling
I think you were looking at seek times, my laptop drive gets better than 16 MB/sec. The WD 200JB gets almost 60 MB/sec transfer rate.
Here's a review page for the WD 200 GB drive and others.
I would have thought it was two drives (since I haven't seen any drives larger than 250 GB), but I don't see how you can fit two drives in a 6.7x1.7x10.6" case. I have an external firewire drive and it's only about an inch smaller width and depth - not much extra room in the case either. And why is there only a 2 MB cache in the 500 GB version? Since every drive I've seen has at least 2 MB cache wouldn't a two drive RAID have at least 4 MB of cache?
I have a university account which, for 4 years has never received spam - mainly because only 5 or so people have the address (family, a couple of friends and girlfriend). For everything and everyone else I use a couple of free webmail accounts.
This summer my girlfriend was in europe, and set up an excite account so she could email friends while on vacation. Very shortly after getting email from her I started getting tons of spam, many with excite as a return address. I forwarded them to abuse and postmaster@excite and they bounced - mailbox full.
Finally I had to set up a server side filter that filters out anything from excite.com, but I still get several spams per day from other sources. There is no doubt in my mind that excite harvested my email address from the to field and sold it to spammers.
It might be usefull to link to chips actually used in the laptops mentioned.
As a bonus it "only" uses 7-10% CPU on my iBook as opppsed to iTunes' 20-30%.