This is ridiculous that anybody is taking this seriously. Look at the team bios or company history - they provide no information that lets you actually look into the history of the company or any individual's work history. Every single person was "at an Irish technology company" or "at a big 4 accounting firm", but never enough to actually do a Google search on them.
However, they did leave some clues. If I look up the domain registration, the two addresses on the domain registration actually exist. One appears on a patent application from 6 years ago for credit card systems. The application was rejected for failing the "nonobvious" criteria and being too vague. This fits with their story of being a (apparently failed) technology company doing transactions.
(The other address, by the way, is now the Gay HIV clinic in Dublin - I suspect that the CEO just used to work out of there, and it is now used for another purpose).
So I'm with this either being a wacky publicity stunt. The names are too perfectly chosen so that nobody can actually research them, and the people look too much like actors...
Standing sounds like a good idea, but walking? I keep getting this hamster image in my head. Plus, I'm sure if I put the computer on a treadmill it wouldn't be too long before I became distracted and forgot to walk. I often use my exercise ball instead of the regular chair at the computer at home. You're constantly using the leg and abdominal muscles to balance yourself. It also reduces back fatigue and improves your posture.
reminds me of douglas adams fairy cake theory a little:
To explain: since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history - from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.
Linuxcare was a San Francisco-based company founded in 1998 by Dave Sifry, Arthur Tyde and Dave LaDuke. The company's initial goal was to be "the 800 number for Linux" and operate 24 hours a day.
obviously, it didn't happen quite that way... but wow! i had no idea.
Ah, I see they fixed some stability issues. That's pretty much the only problem I had with Opera 9 Beta 1, though even when it crashed, it wasn't an issue, because Opera simply let me continue my last session from before the crash. Bless the hearts of those Opera developers.:)
from the article: "Eventually, his and his wife's money was freed up."
The flags were cleared, they didn't lose money, they don't live under a cloud of suspicion
i can't speak for anyone else, but i know that a hold placed on my bank account would ruin me. i would not be able to pay rent, buy food. i would probably be evicted from my house.
all because some monkey raised a flag on a "suspicious" transaction.
true - nobody went to jail in this case... but you seem to not be accounting for how easily innocent lives can get screwed up when flags are raised and accounts locked.
...did not involve them being incarcerated, did not involve a police raid on his home, did not involve an unrestricted warrant on his property, did not have neighbours watching a raid and did not involve him missing work.
from the article: "Eventually, his and his wife's money was freed up."
i can't speak for anyone else, but i know that a hold placed on my bank account would ruin me. i would not be able to pay rent, buy food. i would probably be evicted from my house.
all because some monkey raised a flag on a "suspicious" transaction.
true - nobody went to jail in this case... but you seem to not be accounting for how easily innocent lives can get screwed up when flags are raised and accounts locked.
the Danish have been doing this successfully for a couple of decades already - collecting a full record of all children based on their assignment of a number to the person at birth - as a result, epidemiologists find the Danish incredibly useful for large scale demographic data sweeps... I think it's a great idea, so long as there's rigorous statutory limitations on how the data may be used and accessed.
They're just copying their neighbours, where it seems to be going well... the Danish have been doing this for a couple of decades already - collecting a full record of all children based on their assignment of a number to the person at birth - as a result, epidemiologists find the Danish incredibly useful for large scale demographic data sweeps... I think it's a great idea, so long as there's rigorous statutory limitations on how the data may be used and accessed.
my favorite from TFB would have to be the "Damaging energy exchange". I think it means accident. Although the report in which it was included was at pains to point out that "accident" was an inappropriate term for a "damaging energy exchange", and that the British Medical Association Journal had banned the use of the word "accident" in its articles.' And of course, to "Add value", which is obviously 'to agree with one's boss.'
I don't know if you guys know this, but Webroot's Spy Sweeper is also delisting obvious spyware. Microsoft is not alone in this! I personally think this is going to become a real problem with most spyware scanners unless laws are brought on to fight spyware more aggressively and some kind of standard list is defined like there is for viruses.
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a town with money's a little like a mule with a spinning wheel. no-one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it
This is ridiculous that anybody is taking this seriously. Look at the team bios or company history - they provide no information that lets you actually look into the history of the company or any individual's work history. Every single person was "at an Irish technology company" or "at a big 4 accounting firm", but never enough to actually do a Google search on them.
However, they did leave some clues. If I look up the domain registration, the two addresses on the domain registration actually exist. One appears on a patent application from 6 years ago for credit card systems. The application was rejected for failing the "nonobvious" criteria and being too vague. This fits with their story of being a (apparently failed) technology company doing transactions.
(The other address, by the way, is now the Gay HIV clinic in Dublin - I suspect that the CEO just used to work out of there, and it is now used for another purpose).
So I'm with this either being a wacky publicity stunt. The names are too perfectly chosen so that nobody can actually research them, and the people look too much like actors...
Standing sounds like a good idea, but walking? I keep getting this hamster image in my head. Plus, I'm sure if I put the computer on a treadmill it wouldn't be too long before I became distracted and forgot to walk. I often use my exercise ball instead of the regular chair at the computer at home. You're constantly using the leg and abdominal muscles to balance yourself. It also reduces back fatigue and improves your posture.
until they fix the box model, it still remains "an object of ridicule" to me... :(
straight out of 1984.
if you're not doing anything wrong, why should you mind being watched?
It would be cool if you could send instant messages to the people whose libraries you can browse. Internet cafes would be forever changed.
Ah, I see they fixed some stability issues. That's pretty much the only problem I had with Opera 9 Beta 1, though even when it crashed, it wasn't an issue, because Opera simply let me continue my last session from before the crash. Bless the hearts of those Opera developers. :)
> The Simpsons. In a movie?
that's unpossible!
i had the same thing to say. so?
:)
if i were to express the same opinion to two different people over the course of couple minutes does that make me an opinion whore?
i can't speak for anyone else, but i know that a hold placed on my bank account would ruin me. i would not be able to pay rent, buy food. i would probably be evicted from my house.
all because some monkey raised a flag on a "suspicious" transaction.
true - nobody went to jail in this case... but you seem to not be accounting for how easily innocent lives can get screwed up when flags are raised and accounts locked.
maybe you should revisit your argument?
from the article: "Eventually, his and his wife's money was freed up."
i can't speak for anyone else, but i know that a hold placed on my bank account would ruin me. i would not be able to pay rent, buy food. i would probably be evicted from my house.
all because some monkey raised a flag on a "suspicious" transaction.
true - nobody went to jail in this case... but you seem to not be accounting for how easily innocent lives can get screwed up when flags are raised and accounts locked.
maybe you should revisit your argument?
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firefox was built out of gtk, right? and it looks pretty OK to me.
right. for eight months!
same information at a tenth of the speed.. :(
the Danish have been doing this successfully for a couple of decades already - collecting a full record of all children based on their assignment of a number to the person at birth - as a result, epidemiologists find the Danish incredibly useful for large scale demographic data sweeps ... I think it's a great idea, so long as there's rigorous statutory limitations on how the data may be used and accessed.
They're just copying their neighbours, where it seems to be going well ... the Danish have been doing this for a couple of decades already - collecting a full record of all children based on their assignment of a number to the person at birth - as a result, epidemiologists find the Danish incredibly useful for large scale demographic data sweeps ... I think it's a great idea, so long as there's rigorous statutory limitations on how the data may be used and accessed.
http://www.zombo.com...
thought it fit the mood... =)
for every student.
my favorite from TFB would have to be the "Damaging energy exchange". I think it means accident. Although the report in which it was included was at pains to point out that "accident" was an inappropriate term for a "damaging energy exchange", and that the British Medical Association Journal had banned the use of the word "accident" in its articles.' And of course, to "Add value", which is obviously 'to agree with one's boss.'
I don't know if you guys know this, but Webroot's Spy Sweeper is also delisting obvious spyware. Microsoft is not alone in this! I personally think this is going to become a real problem with most spyware scanners unless laws are brought on to fight spyware more aggressively and some kind of standard list is defined like there is for viruses.
my buddies and me invented a new l33tism:
;-)
'pwn3d' becomes 'wtfpwn3d' when somebody is pwn3ed particularly anally
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