I subscribe to one major national newspaper. Every time they write about "a virus" I send the writer and the section editor a quick note reminding them that it is "a Windows virus."
Would you believe, most of the reporters at this particular paper no longer make the mistake, i.e., most articles mention at least once that the latest breakout impacts only Microsoft Windows systems.
Every L. American country I know, with the possible exception of Chile and Colombia, asks for a visa not for safety/security purposes, but for the purpose of paying the consul.
Visa fees are property of the consul, you see, so she has a strong incentive to maintain the visa system. Technically, it is not payola, because it is "legal"; however, it is clear that consuls are assigned due to party affiliation, friendship, or other nexus to the administration du jour.
Why do you think Brazilian and Mexican consuls insist on giving you $90 visas good for only 90 days, even when you have had 4 visas in the last year?
Because that's $360 in their pockets!
I know a guy who quit his well-paying Exxon job to become a consul
This is not your income taxes. Nowadays, most of these go to keeping older folk on expensive drugs, and other entitlements.
This is your airplane fare at work. While I don't have a recent plane ticket with me, the approximate international airfare figures are:
$13.70 international departure tax
$13.70 international arrival tax
$15.10 in immigration and customs fees
$2.50 security fee (a.k.a. the "9-11" fee)
$3.10 federal segment fee
http://www.smarterliving.com/air/news.php?id=4145
These are "disclosed" in the nearly indecipherable two- or three-line character and number string at the bottom of your ticket.
The bloody BOFH was tired of his windowless office and needed new digs.
BOFH... England... get it?
The U.N. is too corrupt to be given this
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The New York Times Never has there been a financial rip-off of the magnitude of the U.N. oil-for-food scandal
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/opinion/29SAFI.h tml
The Wall Street Journal The company in charge of inspecting goods destined for Iraq under the program was Cotecna, which employed Mr. Annan's son Kojo
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.ht ml?id=110004834
The United Nation's World Health Organization says total 75 dead people as consequence of Chernobyl, as quoted in:
http://www.nirs.org/mononline/CONSEQU.HTM
Note NIRS is an institution with an incentive to exaggerate the situation (because then they get more donations), and even they admit this count! (Of course they also quote the Ukranian government, which stretches the numbers in order to get EU subsidies/gifts/loans).
And Chernobyl was a very old, very unsafe design way behind what is used in the U.S.
Would you stop flying because some Antonov or Ilushyn somewhere crashed?
1) 80% of electricity in France is nuclear (Paris vacation, anyone?)
2) There is more radiation in the U.S. Congress due to its granite construction than is permitted outside a nuclear plant
3) If you take 4 cross-country airplane trips, you get more radiation than allowed at nuclear plants
4) If you live in mountains (Colorado) you also get more radiation, due to the altitude
5) Best estimates are for 325 long term general population deaths arising out of the Chernobyl radiation escape. Guess how many cancers due to oil/coal burning plants elsewhere?
6) Current nuke plant designs have a bias for automatically stopping the reaction at the slightest or even gravest out of spec situation. Imagine your car's engine designed to stop every time you rev up/speed/your dome light burns out.
Fact is, greenies have scared the public, we are currently poisoning our air with oil/coal power plants, creating thousands of new cancers every year. Thanks, tree-huggers.
The Newton browses the internet wirelessly via Airport (a.k.a. Wi-Fi or 802.11);
http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/eng/newtwave.htm
syncs with nSync (OS X)
http://www.everchanging.com/newton/
syncs your MP3 collection with iTunes
http://www.pixell.net/newton/
runs a Java Virtual Machine (waba)
http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/projects/newton/waba/
there's been a VNC client since... ever
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/saweyer/newton/vnc.h tm
A processor accelerator is available
http://shop.pixsolution.com/catalog/product_info.p hp?products_id=29
Apple was one of the original investors in the ARM technology, from way back before Intel ever dreamt of buying it. The Newton runs a RISC StrongARM at 162 Mhz (compare to a 2003/Tungsten T2 running OMAP/ARM at 140 Mhz !!!)
If anything, the major weakness of the system is its limited memory heap, but we are talking about a 1997 design here.
This is, precisely, the joke: no virus, worm, trojan nor spyware has yet been identified for OS X, after 3 years in the market.
As to 20-yr old Classic, there were only 80 viruses ever, the last of them from 1994 or thereabouts; and one-half of the 80 were not OS viruses proper, but Word/Excel macroviruses.
For ANYONE who thinks their iPod will re-load their music back to a crashed Mac:
NO, it does not work this way.
IF you want to preserve your music, BACK IT UP to other media (another hard disc, DVD, CD's if you must)
If your machine's disk crashes, and you re-format, upon connecting your iPod, the system will tell you that this iPod is set to another machine. From now on, do you want to sync with THIS machine? If you say yes... then it will sync with your empty machine, which has a "NEWER" database with no songs; i.e., it will synch both the iPod and the Mac/PC to nothing.
Back up! Rely not on the iPod. This is a severe misconception.
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I subscribe to one major national newspaper. Every time they write about "a virus" I send the writer and the section editor a quick note reminding them that it is "a Windows virus."
Would you believe, most of the reporters at this particular paper no longer make the mistake, i.e., most articles mention at least once that the latest breakout impacts only Microsoft Windows systems.
Every L. American country I know, with the possible exception of Chile and Colombia, asks for a visa not for safety/security purposes, but for the purpose of paying the consul.
Visa fees are property of the consul, you see, so she has a strong incentive to maintain the visa system. Technically, it is not payola, because it is "legal"; however, it is clear that consuls are assigned due to party affiliation, friendship, or other nexus to the administration du jour.
Why do you think Brazilian and Mexican consuls insist on giving you $90 visas good for only 90 days, even when you have had 4 visas in the last year?
Because that's $360 in their pockets!
I know a guy who quit his well-paying Exxon job to become a consul
This is not your income taxes. Nowadays, most of these go to keeping older folk on expensive drugs, and other entitlements.
This is your airplane fare at work. While I don't have a recent plane ticket with me, the approximate international airfare figures are:
$13.70 international departure tax
$13.70 international arrival tax
$15.10 in immigration and customs fees
$2.50 security fee (a.k.a. the "9-11" fee)
$3.10 federal segment fee
http://www.smarterliving.com/air/news.php?id=4145
These are "disclosed" in the nearly indecipherable two- or three-line character and number string at the bottom of your ticket.
Yup. This is yer "service fees" hard at work.
The bloody BOFH was tired of his windowless office and needed new digs.
BOFH... England... get it?
The New York Timesh tml
t ml?id=110004834
Never has there been a financial rip-off of the magnitude of the U.N. oil-for-food scandal
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/opinion/29SAFI.
The Wall Street Journal
The company in charge of inspecting goods destined for Iraq under the program was Cotecna, which employed Mr. Annan's son Kojo
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.h
The United Nation's World Health Organization says total 75 dead people as consequence of Chernobyl, as quoted in:
http://www.nirs.org/mononline/CONSEQU.HTM
Note NIRS is an institution with an incentive to exaggerate the situation (because then they get more donations), and even they admit this count! (Of course they also quote the Ukranian government, which stretches the numbers in order to get EU subsidies/gifts/loans).
And Chernobyl was a very old, very unsafe design way behind what is used in the U.S.
Would you stop flying because some Antonov or Ilushyn somewhere crashed?
People do not realize that:
1) 80% of electricity in France is nuclear (Paris vacation, anyone?)
2) There is more radiation in the U.S. Congress due to its granite construction than is permitted outside a nuclear plant
3) If you take 4 cross-country airplane trips, you get more radiation than allowed at nuclear plants
4) If you live in mountains (Colorado) you also get more radiation, due to the altitude
5) Best estimates are for 325 long term general population deaths arising out of the Chernobyl radiation escape. Guess how many cancers due to oil/coal burning plants elsewhere?
6) Current nuke plant designs have a bias for automatically stopping the reaction at the slightest or even gravest out of spec situation. Imagine your car's engine designed to stop every time you rev up/speed/your dome light burns out.
Fact is, greenies have scared the public, we are currently poisoning our air with oil/coal power plants, creating thousands of new cancers every year. Thanks, tree-huggers.
Apple's offer:
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index17.html
PowerPC G4 at 1.33 Ghz
Gigabit Ethernet
FireWire 800
Built-In Bluetooth
SuperDrive (DVD/CD burner)
Built-In AirPort Extreme (802.11g)
Up to 4.5 hrs battery life
1080i is 1920x1080... Methinks this is still quite high for a PC monitor
;-)
The Apple Cinema Display HD, available since May 2002, is a 2.3 megapixel LCD display at 1920 by 1200.
http://www.apple.com/displays/acd23/
I happen to have one.
The Apple Newton was discontinued in 1998.
h tm
p hp?products_id=29
The Newton browses the internet wirelessly via Airport (a.k.a. Wi-Fi or 802.11);
http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/eng/newtwave.htm
syncs with nSync (OS X)
http://www.everchanging.com/newton/
syncs your MP3 collection with iTunes
http://www.pixell.net/newton/
runs a Java Virtual Machine (waba)
http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/projects/newton/waba/
there's been a VNC client since... ever
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/saweyer/newton/vnc.
A processor accelerator is available
http://shop.pixsolution.com/catalog/product_info.
Apple was one of the original investors in the ARM technology, from way back before Intel ever dreamt of buying it. The Newton runs a RISC StrongARM at 162 Mhz (compare to a 2003/Tungsten T2 running OMAP/ARM at 140 Mhz !!!)
If anything, the major weakness of the system is its limited memory heap, but we are talking about a 1997 design here.
Can you say... Apple ahead of its time?
The issue was that Apple wanted hundreds of dollars
c ts/service/ipod_service.html
49 bucks says you do it yourself http://www.ipodbattery.com/
100 bucks says you are an asshole (you, ePhil One) http://www.info.apple.com/support/applecare_produ
This is, precisely, the joke: no virus, worm, trojan nor spyware has yet been identified for OS X, after 3 years in the market.
As to 20-yr old Classic, there were only 80 viruses ever, the last of them from 1994 or thereabouts; and one-half of the 80 were not OS viruses proper, but Word/Excel macroviruses.
The new corporate IT Department excuse to not specify/allow OS X on the network:
Insecure OS. Does not feature out-of-the-box antivirus protection.
Thank you for the tip on manual syncing. Is it possible, then, to put the music back on the Mac via this method? I did not think it was possible.
I still think my advice on backing up is worth passing around.
In a few months, we are bound to see thousands of people complaining that their music has been lost.
For ANYONE who thinks their iPod will re-load their music back to a crashed Mac: NO, it does not work this way. IF you want to preserve your music, BACK IT UP to other media (another hard disc, DVD, CD's if you must) If your machine's disk crashes, and you re-format, upon connecting your iPod, the system will tell you that this iPod is set to another machine. From now on, do you want to sync with THIS machine? If you say yes... then it will sync with your empty machine, which has a "NEWER" database with no songs; i.e., it will synch both the iPod and the Mac/PC to nothing. Back up! Rely not on the iPod. This is a severe misconception.
Ummm... the correct address is:s
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078815/post