This is a truth rarely pointed out in discussions of spam. I see many many comments along the lines of "if only losers would stop buying their product, spammers would go away..." No, as long as there is hope, some idiot will pay some spam gang to blow a load of email across the face of the net hoping that he'll get rich quick. There could be zero purchases, and the guy will just give up, but what do the spammers care? They have their money and there's always some new moron out there with a grand scheme.
It will be private just long enough to reorganize and cut the fat and then hello, IPO. Same thing with Freescale and a couple of other big companies just bought by private equity firms.
Chicken isn't really a good analogy unless maybe between a Geo Metro full of clowns painted in bumblebee stripes with an air horn, a fart-can muffler, and a bicycle bell on the steering wheel, against a Freightliner truck.
-Require a 4 digit code input through the radio (or other)
My 1998 BMW has this feature - you can program a 4-digit code through the info computer. Works great! And you can disable it if you just want to turn the old-fashioned key and drive off.
What's going to happen to JFS? I was hoping it would get some attention - I am using it for my multimedia server and have been very pleased with the way it handles large DVD image files, not to mention power failures.
>ability to make grated cheese Fondue, you mean to say.
don't you hate it when you forget a break tag and it ruins your lame-ass joke that you were kind of hoping would get moderated +5 Funny? My day is ruined now.
I should say, 'systemic licensing violations that affect their financial reporting'. SOX is there just to make sure the financial reports are complete and accurate.
Rather new at it, it's true, but so far if we find a company has a problem of this sort, it's generally not a very big deal especially if they rectify it before their fiscal year ends. This is just one little piece of the huge SOX pie and often there are other controls in place that mitigate the effect of a finding anyway. Now if the company practiced systemic licensing violations then that's a different matter.
Auditors are in demand because of Sarbanes-Oxley going into effect in 2004 and many companies' IT departments turning out to be total train wrecks and occasionally hotbeds of fraud.
Yeah I had to respond to this. I drove an 85 300D for quite a long time, and loved it. The reason you see so many crappy ones is that they run damn near forever even without basic maintenance (periodic valve adjustments, injector cleaning, not just changing the oil and praying). I kept mine maintained and it ran like a top. Yeah it clattered like a diesel but it barely smoked, it got at the most 25mpg on the highway (which for a 3500 lb car going 80mph with the AC on and full of luggage isn't bad) and I put 300,000 miles on it before I sold it. I think I saved the equivalent of at least one car in the scrapyard which has to count for something towards the environment. Add to that the advantages of a large, roomy, comfortable, cargo-carrying, safe automobile that was very easy and generally inexpensive to maintain myself and never, ever left me stranded. While I like the new TDIs the quality of an old, well-maintained (key words here) MB is hard to beat.
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This is a truth rarely pointed out in discussions of spam. I see many many comments along the lines of "if only losers would stop buying their product, spammers would go away..." No, as long as there is hope, some idiot will pay some spam gang to blow a load of email across the face of the net hoping that he'll get rich quick. There could be zero purchases, and the guy will just give up, but what do the spammers care? They have their money and there's always some new moron out there with a grand scheme.
It will be private just long enough to reorganize and cut the fat and then hello, IPO. Same thing with Freescale and a couple of other big companies just bought by private equity firms.
Chicken isn't really a good analogy unless maybe between a Geo Metro full of clowns painted in bumblebee stripes with an air horn, a fart-can muffler, and a bicycle bell on the steering wheel, against a Freightliner truck.
-Require a 4 digit code input through the radio (or other)
My 1998 BMW has this feature - you can program a 4-digit code through the info computer. Works great! And you can disable it if you just want to turn the old-fashioned key and drive off.
What's going to happen to JFS? I was hoping it would get some attention - I am using it for my multimedia server and have been very pleased with the way it handles large DVD image files, not to mention power failures.
I have fuel for my nightmares now for several more years, thanks!
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Yeah I an see how that happened, the keys are like right next to each other.
1. Create MP3 storage service
2. Wait, rubbing hands and cackling evilly, for everyone to upload their pirated music.
3. Show up at the door and demand to see the CDs the music came from...in fact, forget the CD, just sue.
4. ???
5. Profit!!
Fondue, you mean to say.
don't you hate it when you forget a break tag and it ruins your lame-ass joke that you were kind of hoping would get moderated +5 Funny? My day is ruined now.
>ability to make grated cheese Fondue, you mean to say.
I should say, 'systemic licensing violations that affect their financial reporting'. SOX is there just to make sure the financial reports are complete and accurate.
Rather new at it, it's true, but so far if we find a company has a problem of this sort, it's generally not a very big deal especially if they rectify it before their fiscal year ends. This is just one little piece of the huge SOX pie and often there are other controls in place that mitigate the effect of a finding anyway. Now if the company practiced systemic licensing violations then that's a different matter.
Has open-source software such as Linux influenced the way you think about security in Windows, and if so, how?
AOL?
That was Northwestern Bell, at least it was back in the day.
I have a couple of CDs (Ricoh brand) that I burned in 1997 that still work fine. I have a few I burned last year that are dead already.
Since Sarbanes-Oxley has only been in effect since last fiscal year, I wonder if this was caught during a SOX audit or it just got outed on its own.
Auditors are in demand because of Sarbanes-Oxley going into effect in 2004 and many companies' IT departments turning out to be total train wrecks and occasionally hotbeds of fraud.
Remember Xenix? That didn't lead to mass adoption either.
I can never look at Google the same way again.
Inferno? pertwee?
They probably just download the files from Bittorrent and you never know the difference. I mean, really, how can they rip X amount of CDs in 2-5 days?
The guy did a whois on the IP address and he's made to sound like a regular Sherlock Holmes.
Yeah I had to respond to this. I drove an 85 300D for quite a long time, and loved it. The reason you see so many crappy ones is that they run damn near forever even without basic maintenance (periodic valve adjustments, injector cleaning, not just changing the oil and praying). I kept mine maintained and it ran like a top. Yeah it clattered like a diesel but it barely smoked, it got at the most 25mpg on the highway (which for a 3500 lb car going 80mph with the AC on and full of luggage isn't bad) and I put 300,000 miles on it before I sold it. I think I saved the equivalent of at least one car in the scrapyard which has to count for something towards the environment. Add to that the advantages of a large, roomy, comfortable, cargo-carrying, safe automobile that was very easy and generally inexpensive to maintain myself and never, ever left me stranded. While I like the new TDIs the quality of an old, well-maintained (key words here) MB is hard to beat.