In case you and others do not know; one of the latest tricks is to use your phone provider as a billing agent. Many "services" can now be charged to your phone bill and it appears just like all the other obscure and unwanted charges (did you know there is a fee charged to itemize the fees charged? Read your bill). The problem here is that there are no regulations covering this such as the ones in place for your credit card (bill dispute, stop charge, cooling off period, etc). Companies are just discovering this whole new "review stream" and soon I predict all sorts of NEW obscure charges on the average bill.
A while back I wrote the tale here of my attempts to end an AOL account I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR, that AOL was charging me for on my phone bill. Not on a credit card you can challenge, but on the telephone which is far more difficult to get rid of. It ended up taking me two months of bills, 4 phone calls, and a letter to my Attorney General's office. The result was a letter back from AOL calling me a liar but hey! They stopped billing me. AOL is just plain evil. I would rather use Windows 98 on cable modem with no firewall then subscribe to AOL
Global wonking warnings are one of the reason "ecologist" has gained such a bad name in the sciences; It no longer is a science but more a religion or socila program of some sort. I would strongly suggest a read on the relationship between climate and volcanism. For a start try: Handler P., and K. Andsager, 1994: El-Niño, Volcanism, and Global Climate. Human Ecology, 22, 37-57. Chicken Little was probably an "ecologist"....
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Back in the 1980s was another such case: it involved a magazine Soldier of Fortune. It seems a fellow took out an add in SOF to hire himself out as a mercenary. a little man's wife hired the fellow to "Do him in". The Fool (anyone who would advertise themselves in a national publication as available for illegal activates is by definition a fool) failed. So of course: Milquetoast man sues the magazine. The kicker here is: HE WON!
Given that neither Think Secret nor Apple is rabid right wing, I do not see a similar scenario playing out. Here it will probably be: My lawyer is bigger then your lawyer.
Certainly. I want to live to the ripe old age of 725, be a gazillionaire, then die of a heart attack in the saddle with a 16 year old and have my estate sued on a paternity suit!
-Without our dreams we become...cranky old men...
I have an idea and the gadget looks ta be EXACTLY what I need for my application:
I do have a question though: Zen seems the most economical for my purpose here: I want to upgrade a 1st gen iPod with a larger hard drive and harvesting from existing players seems the best way to get a little drive. Does anyone know if the Zen uses a compatable plug format on their drive to the iPod?
I tried it. I found this particular interesting: Box: Compaq P4 2ghz 256mb memory XP SP1 on a Corp. net (yes I know, but some of our in-house apps fail under SP2): Fairly clean already machine with Adaware and Spybot already loaded. I downloaded the Microsoft beta and ran it. Many minutes later it reported a passle of stuff. Like with Adaware and Spybot I said "Ok dump it all" turned off the All time protection feature, said no to all the "Do you want me to be intrusive and make all your decisions for you?" typical Microsoft crap (didn't matter, it loaded itself anyway), then, and this is the curious part: I ran Spybot. It ran in 2 seconds flat. Say What? So I downloaded a NEW spybot and installed it. It then did a normal several minutes run and found a few chunks I said go ahead and dump. Does the M$ product consider Spybot....spyware?
Government is always looking for something to ban. Seems to me there is a simple solution: ban planes. No pilots flying over your property, no chance of blinding them when engaged in artistic endeavors or whatever you are doing. We are after all talking government actions spurred on by rabid "journalists" flaming a story larger then life to better sell adverts. Ban planes and the paper gets a story, the government gets to ban something, your rights are further eroded and who knows, maybe a new department or bureaucracy might come from this. A Win all the way around.
Gee, and I thought people used command line to actually CONTROL their machines in that the GUI tools developed to supplant the command line are usually poorly designed, confusing, do not actually control the aspect the admin needs to address, and blow up half the time anyway. One truth about Microsoft GUI system controls (Active Directory, SMS, etc) is that Microsoft establishes GUI standards and Microsoft is the first to not follow said patterns. At LEAST with a Command Line WYS really IS WYG
We could use the so-called Aztec Calendar. Mayhaps it is not as easy to code with, but far more accurate. Or the original Greater Sothic Cycle calendar of the Egyptians, on which the Julian Calendar of Rome was based, and in turn on which the Gregorian Calendar, codified during the time of Pope Gregory VII was based. Going further back there is the old Babylonian system (heck its already in base 64!), or to come back to almost the present there is the Revolutionary Calendar of the French Revolution. We could use the old Norse week which only had 5 days in it: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Washday (I am NOT kidding). We could use the Balinese ritual cycle calendar system, or the equally obscure yet similar system used in Tibet. Regardless of the Calendar chosen, most geeks STILL won't be able to get a date!
I have had a couple of conversations on geek subjects with Jeri. She is a brilliant person. Her education in the subject matter has little to do with it. She naturally has the curious mindset and the self-developed tools to achieve. What formally recognized union card (or as they say in the military: ticket punched) you get may mean something to the middle managers, but it means diddly in the reality of life. The truly brilliant shine no matter what their background, what their training. I personally majored in history yet work in IT and as a hobby I am one of those retro computer nerds the article speaks of. Jeri has done wonders with limited resources in areas the majors developers would not find worth looking into or commercially viable. We of the Retro world salute Jeri Ellsworth for her accomplishments! oh and PS: speaking to a post above: in person, Yes, she IS Hot!:)
I recall that way back in the USSR days the Russians launched a similar yet not compatable GPS-like system. I am curious if it is still in operation, useable, outside the scope of this, and avaialable (as is all things Russian these days) for a price in spite of Washington plans. That would mean: available to both citizens and to any terrorist wo had purchased a Russian military reader for a nominal price. Incidentally, a lot of the tracking and targeting components of our own military systems (C & C) are directly linked to the GPS. So, would this be "turn off to civilians" or "turned off to all but military oh and the terrorists who already have the proper systems through black market purchase"? In any event, It is the civilians who pay, and the civilians who loose. Assume the position, bend over and cough folks.
Well, when fusion finally IS achieved.... the REAL question will be: what wine is best served with discovery? Chianti has ben proposed but something older and more refined would perhaps be more in order. (This is a test/.ers... look it up;)
Obviously the answer is not to keep the child away from computers, but rather to keep the child away from academics with agendas and a doctopral committee as muddle headed as themselves...
You're not by chance a Scientologist? That sounds like something right up their alley. Will that slime mold work for bipeds that have evolved from clams?
Actually that Z'Nargh was a blatant rip-off of Gahan Wilson the cartoonist. Many years ago, (1969?) he did a cartoon in a well known magazine which is probably best known for being the inspiration for most women these days wearing staples in their navels. The 'toon showed a flying saucer in Time Square with this impossibly ugly slithering THING oozing out as humans ran screaming in every direction. The THING says: "That's one small step for Z'Nargh, one Giant Leep for Z'Narghkind"
Every culture has had a myth or legend of a long lived person, tribe or peoples. See the "Wandering Jew", or Prestor John, or as the parent post mentions: the Biblical refrences. There are similar myths in Mesoamerican, Hopi and other Amerindian legends, also in China and some other Asian cultures (Tajik legends out of Bactria for example). The immutabe fact is that No one gets out of here alive so this particular belief is shared by all us primates. We also look to God, Technology, Science, or some "Weird Thing" to make mortality not so. Personally I am waiting for the Ambassador from Z'Nargh, to bring some slime mold from the 3rd planet of Tau Ceti which is the prefered imortality perscription for bipeds.
Tracking in restrooms? hardly needed. Why do you think after all that RFID tages are put in food? To see who bought the brocholi? Hardly! The whole idea was to check sewage flow. They are also monitoring each square of TP to see how many you use. Must conserve after all.
And you thought all you had to worry about down there was aligators...
Hello, my name is Plato. It has come to my attention that a bunch of Arab scholars, followed by Catholic Clerics made unauthorized copies of my work "The Republic" using the new technology of goose quill pins (covered by GNU) and said pirate copies were sold all over Europe and indeed even in the New World. This must stop! I after all only died in 347 BC which is clearly within the purview of the current copyright laws. I demand that my decedents be treated to the proceeds of all sales of all copies of this work. You will find my decedents in most of southern Greece, matter of fact, everyone in ALL of southern Greece and the Island of Sicily.
Just becasue a recognized author has been deceased for two and a third millenia is NO EXCUSE!
Back when I was working the hardware side I did international ordinance transfer as a side job. Now that I do a more software related job I decided to stick with the lucrative world of pharmacutical import. Hum drum, yes, but it does provide the additonal money needed for the Christmas fund..
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More Hannibal Lector I would say.... Biting the hand that feeds does not seem enough for them.
-and he said with a voice quite solemn: "You'd better start int he seventh column!"
In case you and others do not know; one of the latest tricks is to use your phone provider as a billing agent. Many "services" can now be charged to your phone bill and it appears just like all the other obscure and unwanted charges (did you know there is a fee charged to itemize the fees charged? Read your bill). The problem here is that there are no regulations covering this such as the ones in place for your credit card (bill dispute, stop charge, cooling off period, etc). Companies are just discovering this whole new "review stream" and soon I predict all sorts of NEW obscure charges on the average bill.
A while back I wrote the tale here of my attempts to end an AOL account I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR, that AOL was charging me for on my phone bill. Not on a credit card you can challenge, but on the telephone which is far more difficult to get rid of. It ended up taking me two months of bills, 4 phone calls, and a letter to my Attorney General's office. The result was a letter back from AOL calling me a liar but hey! They stopped billing me. AOL is just plain evil. I would rather use Windows 98 on cable modem with no firewall then subscribe to AOL
You said it at the beginning: "ABC Reports..". If a "major media outlet" says that it is true: doubt.
Global wonking warnings are one of the reason "ecologist" has gained such a bad name in the sciences; It no longer is a science but more a religion or socila program of some sort. I would strongly suggest a read on the relationship between climate and volcanism. For a start try: Handler P., and K. Andsager, 1994: El-Niño, Volcanism, and Global Climate. Human Ecology, 22, 37-57. Chicken Little was probably an "ecologist".... -
Back in the 1980s was another such case: it involved a magazine Soldier of Fortune. It seems a fellow took out an add in SOF to hire himself out as a mercenary. a little man's wife hired the fellow to "Do him in". The Fool (anyone who would advertise themselves in a national publication as available for illegal activates is by definition a fool) failed. So of course: Milquetoast man sues the magazine. The kicker here is: HE WON! Given that neither Think Secret nor Apple is rabid right wing, I do not see a similar scenario playing out. Here it will probably be: My lawyer is bigger then your lawyer.
Certainly. I want to live to the ripe old age of 725, be a gazillionaire, then die of a heart attack in the saddle with a 16 year old and have my estate sued on a paternity suit! -Without our dreams we become...cranky old men...
I have an idea and the gadget looks ta be EXACTLY what I need for my application: I do have a question though: Zen seems the most economical for my purpose here: I want to upgrade a 1st gen iPod with a larger hard drive and harvesting from existing players seems the best way to get a little drive. Does anyone know if the Zen uses a compatable plug format on their drive to the iPod?
The true question here is: If a Mammal eats a Chinese dinosaur, an hour later is he hungry again?
I tried it. I found this particular interesting: Box: Compaq P4 2ghz 256mb memory XP SP1 on a Corp. net (yes I know, but some of our in-house apps fail under SP2): Fairly clean already machine with Adaware and Spybot already loaded. I downloaded the Microsoft beta and ran it. Many minutes later it reported a passle of stuff. Like with Adaware and Spybot I said "Ok dump it all" turned off the All time protection feature, said no to all the "Do you want me to be intrusive and make all your decisions for you?" typical Microsoft crap (didn't matter, it loaded itself anyway), then, and this is the curious part: I ran Spybot. It ran in 2 seconds flat. Say What? So I downloaded a NEW spybot and installed it. It then did a normal several minutes run and found a few chunks I said go ahead and dump. Does the M$ product consider Spybot....spyware?
Government is always looking for something to ban. Seems to me there is a simple solution: ban planes. No pilots flying over your property, no chance of blinding them when engaged in artistic endeavors or whatever you are doing. We are after all talking government actions spurred on by rabid "journalists" flaming a story larger then life to better sell adverts. Ban planes and the paper gets a story, the government gets to ban something, your rights are further eroded and who knows, maybe a new department or bureaucracy might come from this. A Win all the way around.
Gee, and I thought people used command line to actually CONTROL their machines in that the GUI tools developed to supplant the command line are usually poorly designed, confusing, do not actually control the aspect the admin needs to address, and blow up half the time anyway. One truth about Microsoft GUI system controls (Active Directory, SMS, etc) is that Microsoft establishes GUI standards and Microsoft is the first to not follow said patterns. At LEAST with a Command Line WYS really IS WYG
Yes but have you any plans for 13 cycles 0 katuns, 0 tuns, 0 uinals, o kins?
We could use the so-called Aztec Calendar. Mayhaps it is not as easy to code with, but far more accurate. Or the original Greater Sothic Cycle calendar of the Egyptians, on which the Julian Calendar of Rome was based, and in turn on which the Gregorian Calendar, codified during the time of Pope Gregory VII was based. Going further back there is the old Babylonian system (heck its already in base 64!), or to come back to almost the present there is the Revolutionary Calendar of the French Revolution. We could use the old Norse week which only had 5 days in it: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Washday (I am NOT kidding). We could use the Balinese ritual cycle calendar system, or the equally obscure yet similar system used in Tibet. Regardless of the Calendar chosen, most geeks STILL won't be able to get a date!
I have had a couple of conversations on geek subjects with Jeri. She is a brilliant person. Her education in the subject matter has little to do with it. She naturally has the curious mindset and the self-developed tools to achieve. What formally recognized union card (or as they say in the military: ticket punched) you get may mean something to the middle managers, but it means diddly in the reality of life. The truly brilliant shine no matter what their background, what their training. I personally majored in history yet work in IT and as a hobby I am one of those retro computer nerds the article speaks of. Jeri has done wonders with limited resources in areas the majors developers would not find worth looking into or commercially viable. We of the Retro world salute Jeri Ellsworth for her accomplishments! :)
oh and PS: speaking to a post above: in person, Yes, she IS Hot!
I recall that way back in the USSR days the Russians launched a similar yet not compatable GPS-like system. I am curious if it is still in operation, useable, outside the scope of this, and avaialable (as is all things Russian these days) for a price in spite of Washington plans. That would mean: available to both citizens and to any terrorist wo had purchased a Russian military reader for a nominal price.
Incidentally, a lot of the tracking and targeting components of our own military systems (C & C) are directly linked to the GPS. So, would this be "turn off to civilians" or "turned off to all but military oh and the terrorists who already have the proper systems through black market purchase"? In any event, It is the civilians who pay, and the civilians who loose. Assume the position, bend over and cough folks.
Well, when fusion finally IS achieved.... the REAL question will be: what wine is best served with discovery? Chianti has ben proposed but something older and more refined would perhaps be more in order. (This is a test /.ers... look it up ;)
Obviously the answer is not to keep the child away from computers, but rather to keep the child away from academics with agendas and a doctopral committee as muddle headed as themselves...
You're not by chance a Scientologist? That sounds like something right up their alley. Will that slime mold work for bipeds that have evolved from clams? Actually that Z'Nargh was a blatant rip-off of Gahan Wilson the cartoonist. Many years ago, (1969?) he did a cartoon in a well known magazine which is probably best known for being the inspiration for most women these days wearing staples in their navels. The 'toon showed a flying saucer in Time Square with this impossibly ugly slithering THING oozing out as humans ran screaming in every direction. The THING says: "That's one small step for Z'Nargh, one Giant Leep for Z'Narghkind"
Every culture has had a myth or legend of a long lived person, tribe or peoples. See the "Wandering Jew", or Prestor John, or as the parent post mentions: the Biblical refrences. There are similar myths in Mesoamerican, Hopi and other Amerindian legends, also in China and some other Asian cultures (Tajik legends out of Bactria for example). The immutabe fact is that No one gets out of here alive so this particular belief is shared by all us primates. We also look to God, Technology, Science, or some "Weird Thing" to make mortality not so. Personally I am waiting for the Ambassador from Z'Nargh, to bring some slime mold from the 3rd planet of Tau Ceti which is the prefered imortality perscription for bipeds.
and Duke Nukem Forever will be the best game of the 20th century...when its done...
Tracking in restrooms? hardly needed. Why do you think after all that RFID tages are put in food? To see who bought the brocholi? Hardly! The whole idea was to check sewage flow. They are also monitoring each square of TP to see how many you use. Must conserve after all. And you thought all you had to worry about down there was aligators...
Hello, my name is Plato. It has come to my attention that a bunch of Arab scholars, followed by Catholic Clerics made unauthorized copies of my work "The Republic" using the new technology of goose quill pins (covered by GNU) and said pirate copies were sold all over Europe and indeed even in the New World. This must stop! I after all only died in 347 BC which is clearly within the purview of the current copyright laws. I demand that my decedents be treated to the proceeds of all sales of all copies of this work. You will find my decedents in most of southern Greece, matter of fact, everyone in ALL of southern Greece and the Island of Sicily. Just becasue a recognized author has been deceased for two and a third millenia is NO EXCUSE!
Back when I was working the hardware side I did international ordinance transfer as a side job. Now that I do a more software related job I decided to stick with the lucrative world of pharmacutical import. Hum drum, yes, but it does provide the additonal money needed for the Christmas fund..