All that depends on what she does with her laptop. I net around $150/hr with the help of mine,3 months is a lot of billable hours and wouldn't be remotely covered by their inconvenience pittance. Seeing as how it was getting a power button replaced/fixed, it would not be unreasonable to think they could potentially fix it in under 24 hours if they had the part and maybe as long as 7 days if they had to order it.
Now, to get to the real point. They lied to her and committed fraud to make it appear as though her laptop were still in the system. That complicates the situation a lot more than "she got the money for her laptop and her data wasn't guaranteed to be protected or preserved so she shouldn't sue". Best Buy isn't going to put their managers/tech staff in jail for protecting the company's interests so she has to fight to get something done about it herself.
The Crusades were a long time ago. There have only been a handful of abortion clinic bombings and there have likely been more suicide bombers go "boom" this month than total clinic bombings. And I'm American and proudly militant atheistic; all religions suck in my opinion so you just wasted your filthy religious arguement on a COMPLETE non-believer, thereby putting even more sand in your deity's vagina.
As was recently pointed out, the Kamikaze were organized military personnel attacking military targets. The suicide bombers in the Muslim world don't care if they kill a crowd of innocent children as long as they get to meet their precious $DEITY as a martyr.
You're missing the big picture. Only the real cream of the crop of nutjobs end up as suicide bombers and Islam has an iron grip on those numbers. Pointing fingers at other religions doesn't diminish that fact. Don't get me wrong, I understand why suicide bombers exist, especially if your opponent is the biggest imperial army on the planet, but the fact that so many are Muslim says an awful lot about Islamic teachings or the teachers thereof. Yes, that puts it on the teachers but the religion gives them not only validity but divine rights to encourage this behavior.
For the record, I have no religion so I have nothing to defend except science and logic, and I find every religion to have its share of nutjobs; some just feel an overwhelming need to actually act on their craziness.
Here's a simple question to ask yourself. What religion do most(I dare say close to 99.999%) of the world's suicide bombers subscribe to? Statistically speaking, it doesn't look good for Islam.
"The only problem that I could see with this is web firms that created websites for other people/companies and register it in their name."
A way around this would be to start your own registrar, like some of the turnkey systems that godaddy, etc. offer for all of $90/year but I suspect that's what some of the squatters have started doing already.
This reminds me of an animation I saw on a "movie" called "Too Outrageous Animation" where a guy kept praying to Saint Martin to grant 4 wishes and his nagging wife said she wanted his body covered with cocks(fingers, tongue, elbows, etc.). St. Martin granted the wish and the husband was so enraged that he said he wanted his wife covered in vaginas. That wish was granted and then they both saw they could never go out in public and so they wanted none, the wish was granted. Then they realized they had zero sexual organs and wanted their old ones back; the wish was granted. The moral of the story was: Instead of asking for cocks and cunts, ask for brains instead.
Yes, they work pretty damn well though they have a few limitations depending on how you implement them. Mine uses/used velcro straps to hold it to the screen but I found that it was prone to slippage and I'd have to recalibrate several times per session. So then I "integrated" it by removing the actual touchscreen from its frame and then installing it under the bezel of my laptop; that didn't take long to do but it did take some engineering to anchor the touchscreen so it wouldn't slide under the bezel. As for brands, mine is a Keytec Magic Touch(www.magictouch.com) and you can find them for about $210-ish if you check out their resellers.
The driver that comes with it is alright but there are others available for free(and some for SERIOUS $$$) if you are willing to do some experimentation. I found that the original driver has some limitations that I don't care for in how it senses a touch-on/touch-off so I had to set the driver to "Move-only" and then used the keyboard(and a macro program called AutoIt) to control the mouse click aspect of it. I haven't yet tried but there seem to be some awesome Linux drivers for it that are much more configurable.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you need to know anything specific.
That's still stupid though because one still has to have the box to be in the Nielsen family and affect the ratings. I don't care, I have no plans on watching anything by the NFL now or in the future thanks to their testosterone-and-greed-warped brains.
Yeah, and I bought an add-on touch screen for my laptop for all of $200 or so. I like Lee's work but it's not accurate enough for me to be able to use any apps where they'd be relevant to me, like Maya or Photoshop.
http://realserver.law.duke.edu/ramgen/spring04/framedafternoon2.rm
On this is the video where REM's (road?) manager tells how he inadvertently caused Negativland's ruin. I don't recall where the discussion starts but it's pretty enlightening to those turds'(that's U2 for those not keeping score) attitudes.
Oh, you must have missed the U2/Negativland debacle back in the late 80's/early 90's. U2 apparently has always been about the money, not the politics or the music. Just google "u2 negativland" and you will find more information on it than you probably care to read. Up until about 5 years ago there was no solid proof that U2 had anything to do with the lawsuit against Negativland and they claimed it was entirely Island Records until one day at an intellectual property conference at Stanford(I think, could have been Harvard or the like) where one of the members of Negativland got to talk with the road manager for REM; it was discovered that he had found their album and thought it was great work and so he forwarded a copy to U2 and within days there was a 110 page lawsuit against Negativland. No cease and desist order.
But a lot of what I was talking about isn't a "countermeasure", it is something that might have already been accomplished by little more than coincidence, or even the routine of visiting the site for the first time that browsing session. One doesn't have to go out of their way to accomplish this.
I hate to tell you this but WOT, as great as it looks, will be turned into a tool used to promote spam and malware because it will give users a license to turn off their brains due to the opinions of the masses; masses that may be hired, or tricked by people who want to promote spam and malware. I haven't even gotten into the actual security aspects like how WOT determines which site it is rating if the page has frames/iframes. And, yes, I see that it relies on several different factors before giving a rating but if you think about how cheaply you can outsource things like helpdesks, then imagine how easily and cheaply one could hire an army of marketers to give you good ratings(that also coincidentally don't have to speak and hence will go unnoticed so long as they have decent writing skills).
No, such a tool isn't a good replacement for the human brain, IMNSHO.
I'm not confused at those steps at all. I just don't see many admins willing or even thinking to do searches for referers accessing the *images* since images are often cached by the browser, and the larger the site the more likely this will be the case. A test on one of my sites shows that a single visit to my main page followed by a viewing of a specific page through google's cache reveals that there is no log of me accessing that specific page in any regard, text or images, referer or not. So all the "perp" would have to do for most sites would be to visit the main page directly, and then view everything else via google's cache and the only trace they'd leave was that they visited the main site and left.
If the server logs the HTTP-Referer of accessing WHAT specifically!?!? If you access Google's cache, at what point do you foresee it accessing the original page? Without that they will have to check all the images, etc. and while any access to those images might be logged with the referer, it will be much harder to prove any of this beyond a reasonable doubt since the images would be shared with other pages. Technologically speaking, you're correct; legally speaking, maybe not so much.
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All that depends on what she does with her laptop. I net around $150/hr with the help of mine,3 months is a lot of billable hours and wouldn't be remotely covered by their inconvenience pittance. Seeing as how it was getting a power button replaced/fixed, it would not be unreasonable to think they could potentially fix it in under 24 hours if they had the part and maybe as long as 7 days if they had to order it.
Now, to get to the real point. They lied to her and committed fraud to make it appear as though her laptop were still in the system. That complicates the situation a lot more than "she got the money for her laptop and her data wasn't guaranteed to be protected or preserved so she shouldn't sue". Best Buy isn't going to put their managers/tech staff in jail for protecting the company's interests so she has to fight to get something done about it herself.
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The Crusades were a long time ago. There have only been a handful of abortion clinic bombings and there have likely been more suicide bombers go "boom" this month than total clinic bombings. And I'm American and proudly militant atheistic; all religions suck in my opinion so you just wasted your filthy religious arguement on a COMPLETE non-believer, thereby putting even more sand in your deity's vagina.
As was recently pointed out, the Kamikaze were organized military personnel attacking military targets. The suicide bombers in the Muslim world don't care if they kill a crowd of innocent children as long as they get to meet their precious $DEITY as a martyr.
Eliminating "the israeli and iraqi conflicts" won't work here because the suicide bombers are still Muslim and hence my point stands.
"In other words, even the devil can quote scripture to suit his purposes."
.sig just seems to make you even more laughable than you already are.
Coming from someone with "Thug means never having to say you're sorry" as their
"Thug means never having to say you're sorry."
I just noticed this and find it ironic that you are arguing points about peace.
You're missing the big picture. Only the real cream of the crop of nutjobs end up as suicide bombers and Islam has an iron grip on those numbers. Pointing fingers at other religions doesn't diminish that fact. Don't get me wrong, I understand why suicide bombers exist, especially if your opponent is the biggest imperial army on the planet, but the fact that so many are Muslim says an awful lot about Islamic teachings or the teachers thereof. Yes, that puts it on the teachers but the religion gives them not only validity but divine rights to encourage this behavior.
For the record, I have no religion so I have nothing to defend except science and logic, and I find every religion to have its share of nutjobs; some just feel an overwhelming need to actually act on their craziness.
Here's a simple question to ask yourself. What religion do most(I dare say close to 99.999%) of the world's suicide bombers subscribe to? Statistically speaking, it doesn't look good for Islam.
"The only problem that I could see with this is web firms that created websites for other people/companies and register it in their name."
A way around this would be to start your own registrar, like some of the turnkey systems that godaddy, etc. offer for all of $90/year but I suspect that's what some of the squatters have started doing already.
This reminds me of an animation I saw on a "movie" called "Too Outrageous Animation" where a guy kept praying to Saint Martin to grant 4 wishes and his nagging wife said she wanted his body covered with cocks(fingers, tongue, elbows, etc.). St. Martin granted the wish and the husband was so enraged that he said he wanted his wife covered in vaginas. That wish was granted and then they both saw they could never go out in public and so they wanted none, the wish was granted. Then they realized they had zero sexual organs and wanted their old ones back; the wish was granted. The moral of the story was: Instead of asking for cocks and cunts, ask for brains instead.
Yes, they work pretty damn well though they have a few limitations depending on how you implement them. Mine uses/used velcro straps to hold it to the screen but I found that it was prone to slippage and I'd have to recalibrate several times per session. So then I "integrated" it by removing the actual touchscreen from its frame and then installing it under the bezel of my laptop; that didn't take long to do but it did take some engineering to anchor the touchscreen so it wouldn't slide under the bezel. As for brands, mine is a Keytec Magic Touch(www.magictouch.com) and you can find them for about $210-ish if you check out their resellers.
The driver that comes with it is alright but there are others available for free(and some for SERIOUS $$$) if you are willing to do some experimentation. I found that the original driver has some limitations that I don't care for in how it senses a touch-on/touch-off so I had to set the driver to "Move-only" and then used the keyboard(and a macro program called AutoIt) to control the mouse click aspect of it. I haven't yet tried but there seem to be some awesome Linux drivers for it that are much more configurable.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you need to know anything specific.
That's still stupid though because one still has to have the box to be in the Nielsen family and affect the ratings. I don't care, I have no plans on watching anything by the NFL now or in the future thanks to their testosterone-and-greed-warped brains.
Yeah, and I bought an add-on touch screen for my laptop for all of $200 or so. I like Lee's work but it's not accurate enough for me to be able to use any apps where they'd be relevant to me, like Maya or Photoshop.
This is /. so it's obviously $VERB=twogirlsonecup
Know where I can find more about this device you speak of? Sounds interesting.
For your edification and amusement, a video where REM's manager describes how U2 got their hands on "U2"
Link to the video with REM's manager
http://realserver.law.duke.edu/ramgen/spring04/framedafternoon2.rm On this is the video where REM's (road?) manager tells how he inadvertently caused Negativland's ruin. I don't recall where the discussion starts but it's pretty enlightening to those turds'(that's U2 for those not keeping score) attitudes.
Oh, you must have missed the U2/Negativland debacle back in the late 80's/early 90's. U2 apparently has always been about the money, not the politics or the music. Just google "u2 negativland" and you will find more information on it than you probably care to read. Up until about 5 years ago there was no solid proof that U2 had anything to do with the lawsuit against Negativland and they claimed it was entirely Island Records until one day at an intellectual property conference at Stanford(I think, could have been Harvard or the like) where one of the members of Negativland got to talk with the road manager for REM; it was discovered that he had found their album and thought it was great work and so he forwarded a copy to U2 and within days there was a 110 page lawsuit against Negativland. No cease and desist order.
But a lot of what I was talking about isn't a "countermeasure", it is something that might have already been accomplished by little more than coincidence, or even the routine of visiting the site for the first time that browsing session. One doesn't have to go out of their way to accomplish this.
I hate to tell you this but WOT, as great as it looks, will be turned into a tool used to promote spam and malware because it will give users a license to turn off their brains due to the opinions of the masses; masses that may be hired, or tricked by people who want to promote spam and malware. I haven't even gotten into the actual security aspects like how WOT determines which site it is rating if the page has frames/iframes. And, yes, I see that it relies on several different factors before giving a rating but if you think about how cheaply you can outsource things like helpdesks, then imagine how easily and cheaply one could hire an army of marketers to give you good ratings(that also coincidentally don't have to speak and hence will go unnoticed so long as they have decent writing skills).
No, such a tool isn't a good replacement for the human brain, IMNSHO.
I'm not confused at those steps at all. I just don't see many admins willing or even thinking to do searches for referers accessing the *images* since images are often cached by the browser, and the larger the site the more likely this will be the case. A test on one of my sites shows that a single visit to my main page followed by a viewing of a specific page through google's cache reveals that there is no log of me accessing that specific page in any regard, text or images, referer or not. So all the "perp" would have to do for most sites would be to visit the main page directly, and then view everything else via google's cache and the only trace they'd leave was that they visited the main site and left.
If the server logs the HTTP-Referer of accessing WHAT specifically!?!? If you access Google's cache, at what point do you foresee it accessing the original page? Without that they will have to check all the images, etc. and while any access to those images might be logged with the referer, it will be much harder to prove any of this beyond a reasonable doubt since the images would be shared with other pages. Technologically speaking, you're correct; legally speaking, maybe not so much.