I will never buy anything sony again. Yes they
put out a very nice looking product, and sometimes
with good ideas. But from my own first hand
experiences, SONY products are shit when it comes
to reliablity. I don't know who actually puts them
together (ie are they outsourced?) but they need
to refocus on making something that doesnt fry/fall
apart.
from the website this wonderful nugget of microsloth support advising an upgrade (spend $$$) to a more secure (ha!) version:
I'm running Excel 97 and/or PowerPoint 97, does this issue affect me?
First, it's important to understand that Excel and PowerPoint 97 do not have the same macro security framework as Excel and PowerPoint 2000 and 2002. The Excel and PowerPoint 97 macro security framework lacks many key features that the 2000 and 2002 macro security framework has, including a digital signature trust model that allows trusted, signed macros to be differentiated from untrusted, unsigned macros. Under this older framework, it is difficult for a user to make an informed decision regarding the trustworthiness of macros.
In addition, as noted under "Tested Versions", Excel and PowerPoint 97 are no longer supported products.
Because of these two issues, customers who are concerned about macro security are urged to upgrade to a support version with a more robust macro security model.
What is the standard period of time that services
such as google or yahoo keep logs? 1 day? 1 week?
Archived to tape forever?
seems to me its time to purge the logs as quickly
as feasible - make sure you clip the info for
anybody hacking your site, and burn the rest. They
can't actually *force* you to keep logs can they?
I for one did not wait around to the bitter end
this time, having done that with Northpoint. While
I was in limbo that time I ordered Earthlink. Ended
up with two DSLs as isp magically got me on Rhythms
after saying repeatedly they would not be able to.
When I got the letter saying disconnect was around
the corner I just dropped the service. I was paying
$150 a month for 384/384 with the small IP block.
I now have 1.5Mb down (I am very close to the CO)
about 100 up, but no static IP. Hopefully this will
not be far off.
Conclusion: fuck rhythms fuck northpoint and I bet
you a lot of people said the same thing in August
If it isn't abundantly clear by now, the powers that
be on/. are about as far left as you can get. IMHO
they are bleeding heart commies, but since this is
still America and they do 'own'/. they can spout
off whatever nonsense they want. I used to think
that they were just naive, but its got to be more
than that.
In regards 'making the same mistakes' as Britain
and Russia... don't you think that the whole Russian
campaign has been detailed and disected and studied
for 10 years now by the CIA/DIA/DOD? They thrive
on case studies and 'what went wrongs'.
that may well be, but consider the magnitude..
not all of those killed were so called 'fat cat
brokers' either - the support staff outnumber the
brokers. Not to mention most of those brokers are
not making cash seen in the top ranks of Goldman
or Morgan Stanley. Many make well under that
magic 6 figure mark. And if you consider that
numbers like $1,000 or even 10,000 per family will
only go a very short ways to helping them overcome
the loss of income, we are talking of $700,000 to
$7,000,000 - very large sums. When you throw in
education funds for children, day care, etc they
are going to need much more.
Cantor as a firm has always given back. They
have been a long timer supporter of the Esiason
foundation, Childrens Aid and many more.
You are right, they will receive contributions from some
of their clients, but I doubt it will be enough.
I am a daytrader and with the markets closed there
is really nothing else to do but watch. Watch
Europe, watch Asia, and watch the carnage on TV.
I think we finally hit the saturation point with
Bush's trip to G0 and it will diminish until any
reprisals are taken.
I ask all of you on/. to consider contributing to
the Cantor Fitzgerald Foundation. This broker, who
is the most responsible for the smooth functioning
of the cash bond markets, has lost 700 of 1000
staff. You may have seen the CEO on TV, he lost
his brother as well. They were all hardworking
people who didn't make it the 2nd time around.
The address is:
The Cantor Fitzgerald Foundation
101 Park Ave. 45th Floor New York, NY, 10178-0060 Attn: Phil Ginsberg.
Under Clinton/Gore, and now under a Democratically
controlled Senate, this country has seen by far
the greatest erosion of privacy and personal
freedom rights ever. The draft of this bill is
perhaps the pinnacle. Were I to assemple a PC
out of parts and put Win 98 on it (linux aside)
I would be a criminal. Democrats = NO FREEDOM PARTY.
Wake up and smell the coffee people. They
want to control every facet of your life from
cradle to grave. As somebody else posted - you
people in SC better be voting this guy out instead
of sitting on your ass!
Aside from blocking IP's, is it possible, as the
owner of a website, p2p net, or what have you, to
legally exclude certain individuals/corporations
from accessing your site? Ie, say a web site on
the home page has a statement to the affect: "All
are welcome to this site excepting XYZ corp" where
XYZ might be Rangerinc. Just a thought but there
should be some way of denying them access to scan
your whole site on a fishing trip, and if they were to try to
use any information found, it would be illegal due
to the prior declaration. Of course, I'm not a lawyer:)
cleanrooms aside the manufacture of chips, boards,
etc are very harmful environmentally. Cali is
facing tremendous arsenic problems from the fabs.
However, this was totally ignored by Bill & Al as
'its the economy stupid'.
it clearly wasnt of note last week:
2001-08-02 18:18:20 Rhythms CH 11 (articles,news) (rejected),
even though it was pretty well clear
they would be shutting it all down. For those
of us who actually use SDSL for work, it sucks
large. I was on NP, now Rhtyms, and there is
no COVAD here. And people who have COVAD are
kidding themself if they think their 'reorg' plan
is gonna do anymore than get them thru next March.
They claim if the bond holders swap for some equity they wont need money until then, and just
another $200 mio. Yeah right. I can just see
the VC's beating down their doors.
Using the franklin ebookman- its got a nice screen. But the point is - I refuse to pay hard
cover prices for an ebook. The costs of mfg and
distribution are minimal. Ebooks should be priced
based upon the royalty to author + a very nominal
distribution charge + a fair (ie 10 or 15%) mark
up to publisher. If they were all priced in
the $3-5 range I'd gladly pay.
The members of the chat room I am in use a
crypto plug in called rcforge. We use the CS2
protocol, and it a) protects are convos, and b)
keeps the strays to a minimum. And its very easy
to switch back and forth between clearn and coded
text.
most of the laptops are made by a handful of asian
companies for the likes of Smell, Gateway, etc.
A number of them will sell directly with basically
the identical unit.
That said.. Sony blows. Personal experience with
mobo frying, out of warranty and Sony wanting to
snake $1500 off me for a new one. Nice eh?
Any digital signal in real time blows. The same
for phones. Digital is unable to recover from
signal loss gracefully like analog. Analog may
weaken and fade, but its still viewable/listenable. Not so with that all so great digital. Frozen pixels and chopped convos.
Yeah thats progress.
If they came to your home and personally told you
it was only intended to stop a handful of missiles
at most would you still contend we are attempting
a system to shoot down all of russias nukes?
The major goals are to protect the US against a
rogue nation &/or accidental launch. I wonder
if Michael thinks his prayers will bring either
one of those missiles down should the event occur?
Does he really think that security of missile
facilities overseas is so good that the probability
of this happening is 0? Is he that tight
with the N. Koreans to think they (or Iraq or Iran)
might not be crazy enough to luanch one?
(Ooooops! We made a mistake sorry about that!)
Why are you assuming a full retaliation is certain?
Do you think Willy would have had the
balls to nuke Iran (oil supply, major fallout on
Russia, India, etc). Simply put - this Michael
character is an naive and a troll.
Get a clue.. its missile defense if it
even ever works, or worse has to be used. And
Clinton funded the research through his term. The
the cost was estimated by CBO last year to be
order of $60 bio over 15 years. Lets see... thats
60% of the space station. Will the science done
on the full blown version ever recoup the costs?
And how do you balance this against the cost of
not building a missile defense? Even if it were
only used once, to stop just one bomb, it would
more than pay for itself - totally ignoring what
ever price you put on the people who would not be
killed.
ref:
http://www.rand.org/natsec_area/products/missile de fense.html
I think this boils down to inconvenience in payment and
in usage. First, how to pay? Do I need to subscribe
to a service that allows me to pay over net?
Second, do I have to manually agree to pay
(ie click thru) for each story? each issue?
If the process is automated - say by a cookie of
some kind, do I then have to keep checking my
micro(or macro!) pay account to be sure its been
charged correctly? How do I even being to keep
track of this for 4 or 5 services?
Then there is the whole issue of reading stuff
online. I don't know about you, but I've a very
limited attention span when it comes to reading
text on a computer. Go beyond 2 screens and I'm
moving on. It is just *not* the same as a news
letter/magazine/newspaper/book. Even on a laptop.
In a related theme, what I would pay extra for
(say $5 or $10) would be an online back up &/or
supplement to an existing magazine/newspaper
subscription. For the tiems you are away from
home, bored at work, or just want a little more
depth than the print version. But I would never
pay only for the online version (see above).
Slashdot Mirror
Taco is whats lame..
I will never buy anything sony again. Yes they
put out a very nice looking product, and sometimes
with good ideas. But from my own first hand
experiences, SONY products are shit when it comes
to reliablity. I don't know who actually puts them
together (ie are they outsourced?) but they need
to refocus on making something that doesnt fry/fall
apart.
Isn't it time to concentrate the innovation on
these areas? How does a xGhz CPU help speed up
work on a 300Mb graphic?
from the website this wonderful nugget of microsloth support advising an upgrade (spend $$$) to a more secure (ha!) version:
I'm running Excel 97 and/or PowerPoint 97, does this issue affect me?
First, it's important to understand that Excel and PowerPoint 97 do not have the same macro security framework as Excel and PowerPoint 2000 and 2002. The Excel and PowerPoint 97 macro security framework lacks many key features that the 2000 and 2002 macro security framework has, including a digital signature trust model that allows trusted, signed macros to be differentiated from untrusted, unsigned macros. Under this older framework, it is difficult for a user to make an informed decision regarding the trustworthiness of macros.
In addition, as noted under "Tested Versions", Excel and PowerPoint 97 are no longer supported products.
Because of these two issues, customers who are concerned about macro security are urged to upgrade to a support version with a more robust macro security model.
What is the standard period of time that services
such as google or yahoo keep logs? 1 day? 1 week?
Archived to tape forever?
seems to me its time to purge the logs as quickly
as feasible - make sure you clip the info for
anybody hacking your site, and burn the rest. They
can't actually *force* you to keep logs can they?
I for one did not wait around to the bitter end
this time, having done that with Northpoint. While
I was in limbo that time I ordered Earthlink. Ended
up with two DSLs as isp magically got me on Rhythms
after saying repeatedly they would not be able to.
When I got the letter saying disconnect was around
the corner I just dropped the service. I was paying
$150 a month for 384/384 with the small IP block.
I now have 1.5Mb down (I am very close to the CO)
about 100 up, but no static IP. Hopefully this will
not be far off.
Conclusion: fuck rhythms fuck northpoint and I bet
you a lot of people said the same thing in August
If it isn't abundantly clear by now, the powers that /. are about as far left as you can get. IMHO
/. they can spout
be on
they are bleeding heart commies, but since this is
still America and they do 'own'
off whatever nonsense they want. I used to think
that they were just naive, but its got to be more
than that.
In regards 'making the same mistakes' as Britain
and Russia... don't you think that the whole Russian
campaign has been detailed and disected and studied
for 10 years now by the CIA/DIA/DOD? They thrive
on case studies and 'what went wrongs'.
that may well be, but consider the magnitude..
not all of those killed were so called 'fat cat
brokers' either - the support staff outnumber the
brokers. Not to mention most of those brokers are
not making cash seen in the top ranks of Goldman
or Morgan Stanley. Many make well under that
magic 6 figure mark. And if you consider that
numbers like $1,000 or even 10,000 per family will
only go a very short ways to helping them overcome
the loss of income, we are talking of $700,000 to
$7,000,000 - very large sums. When you throw in
education funds for children, day care, etc they
are going to need much more.
Cantor as a firm has always given back. They
have been a long timer supporter of the Esiason
foundation, Childrens Aid and many more.
You are right, they will receive contributions from some
of their clients, but I doubt it will be enough.
I am a daytrader and with the markets closed there
/. to consider contributing to
is really nothing else to do but watch. Watch
Europe, watch Asia, and watch the carnage on TV.
I think we finally hit the saturation point with
Bush's trip to G0 and it will diminish until any
reprisals are taken.
I ask all of you on
the Cantor Fitzgerald Foundation. This broker, who
is the most responsible for the smooth functioning
of the cash bond markets, has lost 700 of 1000
staff. You may have seen the CEO on TV, he lost
his brother as well. They were all hardworking
people who didn't make it the 2nd time around.
The address is:
The Cantor Fitzgerald Foundation
101 Park Ave.
45th Floor
New York, NY, 10178-0060
Attn: Phil Ginsberg.
Under Clinton/Gore, and now under a Democratically
controlled Senate, this country has seen by far
the greatest erosion of privacy and personal
freedom rights ever. The draft of this bill is
perhaps the pinnacle. Were I to assemple a PC
out of parts and put Win 98 on it (linux aside)
I would be a criminal. Democrats = NO FREEDOM PARTY.
Wake up and smell the coffee people. They
want to control every facet of your life from
cradle to grave. As somebody else posted - you
people in SC better be voting this guy out instead
of sitting on your ass!
read the story before submitting your post - just because it says 'comet sized' does not mean it was a comet.
Aside from blocking IP's, is it possible, as the :)
owner of a website, p2p net, or what have you, to
legally exclude certain individuals/corporations
from accessing your site? Ie, say a web site on
the home page has a statement to the affect: "All
are welcome to this site excepting XYZ corp" where
XYZ might be Rangerinc. Just a thought but there
should be some way of denying them access to scan
your whole site on a fishing trip, and if they were to try to
use any information found, it would be illegal due
to the prior declaration. Of course, I'm not a lawyer
cleanrooms aside the manufacture of chips, boards,
etc are very harmful environmentally. Cali is
facing tremendous arsenic problems from the fabs.
However, this was totally ignored by Bill & Al as
'its the economy stupid'.
why not read the article.. all the funding was
restored.. DUH!
it clearly wasnt of note last week:
2001-08-02 18:18:20 Rhythms CH 11 (articles,news) (rejected),
even though it was pretty well clear
they would be shutting it all down. For those
of us who actually use SDSL for work, it sucks
large. I was on NP, now Rhtyms, and there is
no COVAD here. And people who have COVAD are
kidding themself if they think their 'reorg' plan
is gonna do anymore than get them thru next March.
They claim if the bond holders swap for some equity they wont need money until then, and just
another $200 mio. Yeah right. I can just see
the VC's beating down their doors.
and you still wouldnt be happy because he is GWB
just admit your personal bias and move on.. and maybe leave out the political 'reports' too
Using the franklin ebookman- its got a nice screen. But the point is - I refuse to pay hard
cover prices for an ebook. The costs of mfg and
distribution are minimal. Ebooks should be priced
based upon the royalty to author + a very nominal
distribution charge + a fair (ie 10 or 15%) mark
up to publisher. If they were all priced in
the $3-5 range I'd gladly pay.
The members of the chat room I am in use a
crypto plug in called rcforge. We use the CS2
protocol, and it a) protects are convos, and b)
keeps the strays to a minimum. And its very easy
to switch back and forth between clearn and coded
text.
most of the laptops are made by a handful of asian
companies for the likes of Smell, Gateway, etc.
A number of them will sell directly with basically
the identical unit.
That said.. Sony blows. Personal experience with
mobo frying, out of warranty and Sony wanting to
snake $1500 off me for a new one. Nice eh?
Ice wm baby
Any digital signal in real time blows. The same
for phones. Digital is unable to recover from
signal loss gracefully like analog. Analog may
weaken and fade, but its still viewable/listenable. Not so with that all so great digital. Frozen pixels and chopped convos.
Yeah thats progress.
If they came to your home and personally told you
it was only intended to stop a handful of missiles
at most would you still contend we are attempting
a system to shoot down all of russias nukes?
The major goals are to protect the US against a
rogue nation &/or accidental launch. I wonder
if Michael thinks his prayers will bring either
one of those missiles down should the event occur?
Does he really think that security of missile
facilities overseas is so good that the probability
of this happening is 0? Is he that tight
with the N. Koreans to think they (or Iraq or Iran)
might not be crazy enough to luanch one?
(Ooooops! We made a mistake sorry about that!)
Why are you assuming a full retaliation is certain?
Do you think Willy would have had the
balls to nuke Iran (oil supply, major fallout on
Russia, India, etc). Simply put - this Michael
character is an naive and a troll.
Get a clue.. its missile defense if it
e de fense.html
o gy /missile_defense_000426.html
even ever works, or worse has to be used. And
Clinton funded the research through his term. The
the cost was estimated by CBO last year to be
order of $60 bio over 15 years. Lets see... thats
60% of the space station. Will the science done
on the full blown version ever recoup the costs?
And how do you balance this against the cost of
not building a missile defense? Even if it were
only used once, to stop just one bomb, it would
more than pay for itself - totally ignoring what
ever price you put on the people who would not be
killed.
ref:
http://www.rand.org/natsec_area/products/missil
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technol
I think this boils down to inconvenience in payment and
in usage. First, how to pay? Do I need to subscribe
to a service that allows me to pay over net?
Second, do I have to manually agree to pay
(ie click thru) for each story? each issue?
If the process is automated - say by a cookie of
some kind, do I then have to keep checking my
micro(or macro!) pay account to be sure its been
charged correctly? How do I even being to keep
track of this for 4 or 5 services?
Then there is the whole issue of reading stuff
online. I don't know about you, but I've a very
limited attention span when it comes to reading
text on a computer. Go beyond 2 screens and I'm
moving on. It is just *not* the same as a news
letter/magazine/newspaper/book. Even on a laptop.
In a related theme, what I would pay extra for
(say $5 or $10) would be an online back up &/or
supplement to an existing magazine/newspaper
subscription. For the tiems you are away from
home, bored at work, or just want a little more
depth than the print version. But I would never
pay only for the online version (see above).