I do not depend on the internet for anything I can't and haven't gotten elsewhere or can do without. The reason the big business's want the net is the customers, if they make it unpalatable I and many other people will just stop using it, then they will have spent more billions destroying a possible source of income than they have made...The rules of survival in business are similar to those in real life...the fit and strong survivwe, the weak and stupid get welfare or starve:)
Did someone attempt to impersonate your wife or try Identity theft ? If not, if they just set you up for spam sorry but it is legal. Why do you think your BANK ADVISES YOU NOT to just throw away your cancelled checks and statements ?!?!? There are specific laws about impersonating people, identity theft or fraud, but after a legal search of the DB here in CA, and a call to a friendly lawyer I still stand by my comment. Evil, venal but not illegal. Note I am not a lawyer, did not pay my buddy to do real research, but just took his informed opinion on the subject. There have been several cases where public figures' info has been salvaged from trash and posted in public places, ie in the newspaper for instance and there has been no legal recourse:)
the new windows in not any better, and has MSIE 6 on it with the SAME holes as everyone else. Just finished installing the MOST recent Developer release of 2K3, don't hold your breath for this release to be ANY better than the previous one regarding security. In fact if the integration continues expect all the "BROWSER" based exploits to be migrated right into the local system without even a look backwards. So far beyond extended memory/proc support I fail to see any REAL improvements in 2K3, much GUI'fied updates, some useless moving ad renaming of function from one place to another, and some really lame shutdown documentation requirments. M$ just really doesn'tunderstand what people want, or even how to find out what their customers really see as the #1 prioroties....
NOT EVEN CLOSE, it will allow them to completely control the the replacement time of your entire car. This will make engineered obsolecence (sp?) the current corporate darling even more controllable. The vendor can sunset the support for your car because of software/firmware upgrade issues...Think of M$'s OS upgrade cycle and how much a durable goods manufacturer would like to be able to emulate that kind of re-buy re-supply cycle. Of course with the DMCA, you will be forbidden to try and revers engineer parts, the warranty will be void if third party parts are used and the only place to buy certified parts is from the dealer at a 5000% mark-up. This spells COST COST COST COST for the consumer....
you dropped it in A PUBLIC TRASH BIN for god's sakes...The courts have repeatedly held that even YOUR OWN GARBAGE on the curb is publically accessible. While low and evil it is legal and your wife was just silly, sorry.
when I got my phone service was promised that several new cell points were being added in my area to cover the current spotty connection...9 months later and not a single change, it is still 'in the works' which is sales-speak for yeah right, shit in one hand and hold the other one out for a new cell node.... I've kept the service because I have business cards, ads, existing customer contacts and escalation procedures etc, but I know well and good that they aren't gonna upgrade anything... The INSTANT I can keep my number I am switching, CAN YA HERE ME NOW.....asshat salesmen at Verizon. To be totally honest I'd like to get a single carrier, one number, both house and mobile, but the odds of getting somthing that simple, logical and obviously good for business here in the US is VERY SLIM....
Can't argue that at all:) The lawyers have rigged the system, but just because the lady was an idiot doesn't mean the corp was not negligent, and the ONLY language the understand is $$$$'s. The PUNATIVE issue is punishment on a scale suitable to the source. Fining a billion dollar company 10,000 for a violation that saved millions is like asking them to continue. This may not be the best example but the excesses on both side are obscene.
2nd and 3rd degree burns should not be a normal response from spilling coffee on yourself. I agree on the responsibility issue but even employees of that Micky D's remarked that the coffee was way too hot to drink, and that there was somthing wrong with the pot...That is why the PUNITIVE damages were so high...not that the dumb lady deserved money for being an idiot but the corporation ignored a known potential, and the ONLY language corps speak is $$$$, and the ONLY way to hit them is to take money away...and in sums large enough to hurt them... Chevron is a prime examlpe, they have been illegally venting gasses on the weekends, getting fined like 10,000 per case, and saving nearly 1,000,000 in proper disposal fees, in the corporate mindset that is a successful disposal plan. Until they are fined more than they are saving, or someone is held personally responsible, nothing is gonna change there...
Sigh,do you always generalize and make up stuff on the fly to suit your needs ? you should try politics...Crushed by law suits from people like me ?? you don't know me, I seriously doubt your reasoning ability based on your assinine assumptions and circular logic.
As to who the HELL I am to tell you anything, just where did I tell you anything, I pointed out the supporting facts which seem to be irrelavant to you, and you cursed me and then proceeded to prove your mental prowess by making assumptions not in evidence. Maybe JUST MAYBE if the corporations stopped trying to dispense with any sort of responsibilty for anything, people would try some personal responsibility as well....NAH it would never work. In the meantime I hope you enjoy that really bad, burned coffee:)
Grow up and look around, responsibility flows BOTH ways and the corporate world has abdicated ANY SORT OF RESPONSIBILITY. It is in the EULA. So why then sir should I attempt to be responsible ? 180 degree coffee is insane, was insane and MickyD's KNEW IT, and still refused to do anything, heck if the coffee had gotten 10 degrees warmer it would have melted thru the cup
understand it, I just felt that the movie began to take itself seriously as a vehicle for philosophy rather than the hodgepodge of half baked ideas from 47 cultures crammed into one frozen custard shell. It hand some decent entertainment value but seemed to me to be lessened by its' very core of seriousness. If they were coing to try and treat the issue in a serious manner then I have major issues with hundreds of logic flaws in the the matrix and world structures. If it was just for fun then I still stand by my statement that it was much less enjoyable than the first Matrix...
messaging let down, if it sucks as bad as the 2nd one did....If everyone is seeing it the same day they will get their peice of the pie even if it does suck really bad...good strategy...Here's to hoping IT ROCKS......
to link their trustworthy computing platform to the security overflow issues...C'mon meatheads, one has very little to do with the other. The trust wrothy computing crap will cover locking the user out of their own PC. The security holes almost exclusivly derive from their STUPID decision to 'mingle' the code from IE and the local file explorer. The locl file handles had years of secure testing while the internet call were coded by nitwits on the fly after 27 hours of caffienated creativity. They work usually but had NO security, on convience in mind...
I rent PPV movies all the time and then record them to my PVR to watch when ever I feel like it...granted it is an additional step but easily automated. I think netflix is a sweet deal too and use the heck out it. The question I have is this, wasn't there a federal ruling that the airwaves were free and if you could receive the signal you were entitled to it ?
Possibly, but you must realize thousands of clerical errors like this occur in the court systems everyday. The number of obviously guilty parties set free due to lost evidence, or witness's moving away, ect is staggering. While I really REALLY hate the RIAA , this may not even be their issue...
using manual dialers phoned home when a circuit downed, and this was in the 80's...The patent office is once again woefully uninformed and M$ are once again shown as the greedy, short-sighted, corporate morons they really are. Not that this condition is IN ANY WAY isolated to just M$. The corporation I slave for is run with much the same stagnant, close minded idiotic mentality. I swear they have to remove more than half of upper managements brains on the sly after they appoint them....
WVOP, there is a waste vegetable oil program here is the US for just that. My truck runs a dual system, I filter and clean oild from a local eatery, they save it in a filter barrel I supplied for them. It requires some effort but easily cut my fuel bill in 1/2, and once set-up requires only a little maintainence.
That is the point...DO YOU TRUST M$...and the answer HAS GOT TO BE NO. If you use their products or NOT, they have shown a severe disregard for security, customer security especially, the entire legal system, and personal freedom and privacy. There are DOZENS of platforms with KNOWN TRUSTED security systems that have undergone years of testing, say TANDEM(HP) and ATALLA encryption, it is good enough for ATMS it should be good enough for voting.
err then your system must be defective Mr. sales person, and have I shown you my award winning breed of attack dogs, let me introduce them to you one at a time slowly as sudden movements make them nervous, and BTW did you see the no salespersons sign at the fence:) Right next to the no tresspassing sign, and the first aid kit......
so I can never spend them ? they are going to require the garage sale owner to have a unit to register bills ?.....this is paranoid fantasy. RFID tags are easily removeable..say just wash the bills, run them thru a steam press, the life span of bills and the 'quality' of $.02 electronics ensures this will be a foolish, expensive and non-functional system. If they come to depend on the rfid tags then counterfeiting money will become EASIER, not harder...it is much easier to pass a bad cc#, than it is to pass bad bills, becuase of human nature, if the computer says it is good it must be so....
I go get $500, you go get $500, and some 6 other people we don't know go get $500 and we all go to a bar and exchange bills randomly...OK SO WHO's got what now...The rfid tage are not needed for counting, it is machine counted and serialized now. RFID readers have a range of what 8 feet or so MAX, and that is assuming the tag is plainly visible and not buried under 2 feet of interference, or powered by some larger battery, a 1 inch rfid tag can't have to big of a power source....
nah I think u r correct, ringworld itself is beyond our technology currently, but many of the concepts used are valid and have been used or adopted by engineers....
yes so was George O Smith's plans for a orbiting space station, and Niven's ringworld, which did not stop them from using real math and engineering, or stop the concepts from being adopted by NASA and space programs all over. Real Science Fiction is just science speculation...otherwise it is fantasy:)
tracking you outside the tubes with this thing. I am confused, the range on these is NOT great, we have a bridge fast pass set up here, and if I put it in the glove box the thing wont work, just keep it sealed away when you are not on the tubes, and big deal. The secret is NOT TO JAM the system but to create hundreds on duplicate signals, so it appears as if you are in multiple places at once, if lots of people did this...DoS due to system overload...
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doing running the alcohol industry ?!?! Too much inbreeding going on down there....
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I do not depend on the internet for anything I can't and haven't gotten elsewhere or can do without. The reason the big business's want the net is the customers, if they make it unpalatable I and many other people will just stop using it, then they will have spent more billions destroying a possible source of income than they have made...The rules of survival in business are similar to those in real life...the fit and strong survivwe, the weak and stupid get welfare or starve :)
Did someone attempt to impersonate your wife or try Identity theft ? If not, if they just set you up for spam sorry but it is legal. Why do you think your BANK ADVISES YOU NOT to just throw away your cancelled checks and statements ?!?!? :)
There are specific laws about impersonating people, identity theft or fraud, but after a legal search of the DB here in CA, and a call to a friendly lawyer I still stand by my comment.
Evil, venal but not illegal. Note I am not a lawyer, did not pay my buddy to do real research, but just took his informed opinion on the subject. There have been several cases where public figures' info has been salvaged from trash and posted in public places, ie in the newspaper for instance and there has been no legal recourse
the new windows in not any better, and has MSIE 6 on it with the SAME holes as everyone else. Just finished installing the MOST recent Developer release of 2K3, don't hold your breath for this release to be ANY better than the previous one regarding security. In fact if the integration continues expect all the "BROWSER" based exploits to be migrated right into the local system without even a look backwards. So far beyond extended memory/proc support I fail to see any REAL improvements in 2K3, much GUI'fied updates, some useless moving ad renaming of function from one place to another, and some really lame shutdown documentation requirments. M$ just really doesn'tunderstand what people want, or even how to find out what their customers really see as the #1 prioroties....
NOT EVEN CLOSE, it will allow them to completely control the the replacement time of your entire car. This will make engineered obsolecence (sp?) the current corporate darling even more controllable. The vendor can sunset the support for your car because of software/firmware upgrade issues...Think of M$'s OS upgrade cycle and how much a durable goods manufacturer would like to be able to emulate that kind of re-buy re-supply cycle. Of course with the DMCA, you will be forbidden to try and revers engineer parts, the warranty will be void if third party parts are used and the only place to buy certified parts is from the dealer at a 5000% mark-up. This spells COST COST COST COST for the consumer....
you dropped it in A PUBLIC TRASH BIN for god's sakes...The courts have repeatedly held that even YOUR OWN GARBAGE on the curb is publically accessible. While low and evil it is legal and your wife was just silly, sorry.
when I got my phone service was promised that several new cell points were being added in my area to cover the current spotty connection...9 months later and not a single change, it is still 'in the works' which is sales-speak for yeah right, shit in one hand and hold the other one out for a new cell node....
I've kept the service because I have business cards, ads, existing customer contacts and escalation procedures etc, but I know well and good that they aren't gonna upgrade anything...
The INSTANT I can keep my number I am switching, CAN YA HERE ME NOW.....asshat salesmen at Verizon.
To be totally honest I'd like to get a single carrier, one number, both house and mobile, but the odds of getting somthing that simple, logical and obviously good for business here in the US is VERY SLIM....
Can't argue that at all :) The lawyers have rigged the system, but just because the lady was an idiot doesn't mean the corp was not negligent, and the ONLY language the understand is $$$$'s.
The PUNATIVE issue is punishment on a scale suitable to the source. Fining a billion dollar company 10,000 for a violation that saved millions is like asking them to continue. This may not be the best example but the excesses on both side are obscene.
2nd and 3rd degree burns should not be a normal response from spilling coffee on yourself. I agree on the responsibility issue but even employees of that Micky D's remarked that the coffee was way too hot to drink, and that there was somthing wrong with the pot...That is why the PUNITIVE damages were so high...not that the dumb lady deserved money for being an idiot but the corporation ignored a known potential, and the ONLY language corps speak is $$$$, and the ONLY way to hit them is to take money away...and in sums large enough to hurt them... Chevron is a prime examlpe, they have been illegally venting gasses on the weekends, getting fined like 10,000 per case, and saving nearly 1,000,000 in proper disposal fees, in the corporate mindset that is a successful disposal plan. Until they are fined more than they are saving, or someone is held personally responsible, nothing is gonna change there...
Sigh,do you always generalize and make up stuff on the fly to suit your needs ? you should try politics...Crushed by law suits from people like me ?? you don't know me, I seriously doubt your reasoning ability based on your assinine assumptions and circular logic.
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As to who the HELL I am to tell you anything, just where did I tell you anything, I pointed out the supporting facts which seem to be irrelavant to you, and you cursed me and then proceeded to prove your mental prowess by making assumptions not in evidence. Maybe JUST MAYBE if the corporations stopped trying to dispense with any sort of responsibilty for anything, people would try some personal responsibility as well....NAH it would never work. In the meantime I hope you enjoy that really bad, burned coffee
Grow up and look around, responsibility flows BOTH ways and the corporate world has abdicated ANY SORT OF RESPONSIBILITY. It is in the EULA. So why then sir should I attempt to be responsible ?
180 degree coffee is insane, was insane and MickyD's KNEW IT, and still refused to do anything, heck if the coffee had gotten 10 degrees warmer it would have melted thru the cup
understand it, I just felt that the movie began to take itself seriously as a vehicle for philosophy rather than the hodgepodge of half baked ideas from 47 cultures crammed into one frozen custard shell. It hand some decent entertainment value but seemed to me to be lessened by its' very core of seriousness. If they were coing to try and treat the issue in a serious manner then I have major issues with hundreds of logic flaws in the the matrix and world structures. If it was just for fun then I still stand by my statement that it was much less enjoyable than the first Matrix...
messaging let down, if it sucks as bad as the 2nd one did....If everyone is seeing it the same day they will get their peice of the pie even if it does suck really bad...good strategy...Here's to hoping IT ROCKS......
to link their trustworthy computing platform to the security overflow issues...C'mon meatheads, one has very little to do with the other. The trust wrothy computing crap will cover locking the user out of their own PC. The security holes almost exclusivly derive from their STUPID decision to 'mingle' the code from IE and the local file explorer. The locl file handles had years of secure testing while the internet call were coded by nitwits on the fly after 27 hours of caffienated creativity. They work usually but had NO security, on convience in mind...
I rent PPV movies all the time and then record them to my PVR to watch when ever I feel like it...granted it is an additional step but easily automated. I think netflix is a sweet deal too and use the heck out it. The question I have is this, wasn't there a federal ruling that the airwaves were free and if you could receive the signal you were entitled to it ?
Possibly, but you must realize thousands of clerical errors like this occur in the court systems everyday. The number of obviously guilty parties set free due to lost evidence, or witness's moving away, ect is staggering. While I really REALLY hate the RIAA , this may not even be their issue...
using manual dialers phoned home when a circuit downed, and this was in the 80's...The patent office is once again woefully uninformed and M$ are once again shown as the greedy, short-sighted, corporate morons they really are. Not that this condition is IN ANY WAY isolated to just M$. The corporation I slave for is run with much the same stagnant, close minded idiotic mentality. I swear they have to remove more than half of upper managements brains on the sly after they appoint them....
WVOP, there is a waste vegetable oil program here is the US for just that. My truck runs a dual system, I filter and clean oild from a local eatery, they save it in a filter barrel I supplied for them. It requires some effort but easily cut my fuel bill in 1/2, and once set-up requires only a little maintainence.
That is the point...DO YOU TRUST M$...and the answer HAS GOT TO BE NO. If you use their products or NOT, they have shown a severe disregard for security, customer security especially, the entire legal system, and personal freedom and privacy. There are DOZENS of platforms with KNOWN TRUSTED security systems that have undergone years of testing, say TANDEM(HP) and ATALLA encryption, it is good enough for ATMS it should be good enough for voting.
err then your system must be defective Mr. sales person, and have I shown you my award winning breed of attack dogs, let me introduce them to you one at a time slowly as sudden movements make them nervous, and BTW did you see the no salespersons sign at the fence :) Right next to the no tresspassing sign, and the first aid kit......
so I can never spend them ? they are going to require the garage sale owner to have a unit to register bills ?.....this is paranoid fantasy. RFID tags are easily removeable..say just wash the bills, run them thru a steam press, the life span of bills and the 'quality' of $.02 electronics ensures this will be a foolish, expensive and non-functional system. If they come to depend on the rfid tags then counterfeiting money will become EASIER, not harder...it is much easier to pass a bad cc#, than it is to pass bad bills, becuase of human nature, if the computer says it is good it must be so....
I go get $500, you go get $500, and some 6 other people we don't know go get $500 and we all go to a bar and exchange bills randomly...OK SO WHO's got what now...The rfid tage are not needed for counting, it is machine counted and serialized now. RFID readers have a range of what 8 feet or so MAX, and that is assuming the tag is plainly visible and not buried under 2 feet of interference, or powered by some larger battery, a 1 inch rfid tag can't have to big of a power source....
nah I think u r correct, ringworld itself is beyond our technology currently, but many of the concepts used are valid and have been used or adopted by engineers....
yes so was George O Smith's plans for a orbiting space station, and Niven's ringworld, which did not stop them from using real math and engineering, or stop the concepts from being adopted by NASA and space programs all over. Real Science Fiction is just science speculation...otherwise it is fantasy :)
tracking you outside the tubes with this thing. I am confused, the range on these is NOT great, we have a bridge fast pass set up here, and if I put it in the glove box the thing wont work, just keep it sealed away when you are not on the tubes, and big deal. The secret is NOT TO JAM the system but to create hundreds on duplicate signals, so it appears as if you are in multiple places at once, if lots of people did this...DoS due to system overload...