I don't think you understand how credit cards work, let alone this law. The law makes it illegal for any company with OPERATIONS in the US to faciliate payments between US citizens and gambling sites offshore. This does not mean just US companies. For instance, my HSBC (Which is a UK company) credit card is also prohibited from doing this. Technically, if a company with zero US presence were to give me a credit card, they would be allowed to do as they wished--- but without a US presence, how would they bill me?
The obvious flaw is that you need to create each one, and they therefore are inherently more limited in number. Text-based chaptchas are generated by a computer- pictures of pandas and their associated word would have to be done by hand.
Well, it all depends on how much you enjoy the process. If you enjoy spending hours dealing with Dell and writing letters and such, then your cost is quite negated anyway. If, on the other hand, you view dealing with Customer support people as being even worse than actually working, then yes, it is correct for me to value that time at my working salary- Id much rather spend the time working and getting paid for it.
You missed the entire point. It may not be "ok" to have 1% of my income stolen each year, but that doesnt mean im going to spend 5% of my income (in this case, in the form of time invested) to prevent the 1% getting stolen.
I have a friend who's hobby used to be "glass", but I think the parole board might not like him delving back into it, even if it was in the christmas spirit.
...but why vote at all?
(I don't think i personally agree with this article, but I definitely found it mathematically sound, and a very interesting arguement. Just at least read it before you mod me "-1, unamerican".)
I suspect his cat is more intelligent and better at the game than plenty of the people Ive grouped with. And probably speaks english better than the farmers. I dont see how blizzard could possibly find out, unless the infamous Warden is now rigged to take over your webcam too.
...and a girlfriend.
Oh, and you dont refresh slashdot every 10 minutes.
Then again, maybe taking care of the last one would help with the first three.... but ill let someone else check and get back to me:)
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My Nokia 3120 has this. Its obnoxiously complicated to activate [about 9 key strokes, plus entering the time for expiration] compared to just switching to vibrate normally [2 keystrokes], but it does have it. I use it every day. Its one of the two features that make me refuse to give up my crappy old nokia, the other one being its ability to have its "normal" mode ring AND vibrate at the same time (lots of phones, particularly LG and samsung, seem to lack this ability, which makes it possible to actually know your phone is ringing in a crowded, loud train station or club). I also am fond of its "ascending" ring option, wherin the ringer starts very quietly and then gets loud.
Now what I would REALLY love to see is a phone that has a ring mode where it vibrates first for a few seconds, then beeps maybe once, waits a few more seconds, and then breaks out in a full ring. This would let me keep it on normal all the time without disrupting movies, meetings, etc.
I spent insane amounts of hours EVERY weekday playing starcraft/red alert/whatever else was out at the time, and my grades were-- Ok, i see your point.
Copper lines are classified and regulated as a Telecommunications service, wheras FiOS (even though once you get it, verizon uses it for your regular phone too) is considered a information service, and is not subject to third party resale by people like speakeasy. This is very unlikely to change any time soon, because Congress just passed a major revamp of the Telecommunications act last summer which strengthened this distinction. Basically, under the new rules, anyone can sell you POTS services or anything over them, but other network operators (cable, fios) are free to offer you any services they want (so comcast can offer phone over its coax, for instance, while verizon can offer cable over fios) but they dont have to share their networks. Kindof creates a duopoly, AFAIK, between your local cable provider and Verizon, with both offering all the same services.
As for the whole "omg pipe dream!!!!" people, I have had FiOS in my house for almost two years. Its not a pipe dream. Its the most reliable, fastest, best connection I've ever seen in the residential class, and Ive had comcast, Covad DSL, speakeasy DSL, and Verizon DSL. Absolutely no complaints. I originally kept both my Covad DSL line and the FiOS, thinking i would get redundancy that way, but after 3 months without a single FiOS outage, I said to hell with the extra 70 bucks a month.
Sure, gadgets are blatant knockoffs. But they arent blatant knockoffs of OS X widgets. Theyre blatant knockoffs of Konfabulator (Now Yahoo Widgets), which is what Apple knocked off too.
Apple fanbois dont get to complain about this one.
All MS did was copy Apples copying.
Now admittedly, there are plenty of legitimant copyjobs going back and forth between both companies, but this isnt one of them.
I tend to agree... unless this money was going to some cause besides the professor himself, this would last about as long at my school as it took the administration to catch wind of it.
On the other hand, if he was donating 100% of the money to pretty much anything, it would probably be let slide.
The ~10 yard range reduces the effectiveness of this in allot of walking-by type things, but in places like Elevators or Escalators with those Captivate screens it could be a home run. That gives it time to scan everyone's devices, and still have you in viewing range for long enough to show the tailored ads.
But my question is, without hat exactly are they going to identify about you just by what type of bluetooth devices you carry? Not allot that i can think of, except maybe identifying total geeks (tons of devices), or i guess maybe what Cell carrier you use. Doesnt seem terribly useful to me.
However, TFA says that its anonymous, but trackable by device... This means that if they partnered with makers of POS systems, they could "anonymously" track what/where you were buying, too, and then recognize you as you walked near their ad screens.
Imagine, buy a starbucks coffee, go back up to your office, and then the same time the next day when you take the elevator down, the screens are showing nothing but dunkin donuts ads...
Would someone please tell that to Barry and Elliot, Bernie and Phyll, Raymour and Flannigan, Mattress Giant, and every other furniture store whose horriblly annoying ads I have to listen to every other commercial on the way to work when I just want to hear the $#%^@$ traffic report?
It all depends how you define "trouble-shooting", and although I would tend to agree with you that the number sounds high at first glance, keep in mind that the/. crowd probably uses a higher standard when defining troubleshooting than they did. For all we know they defined it as "checking to make sure the cords all appear to be connected to sockets they seem to fit into" (thats about the limit of my moms "troubleshooting" before she gives up and calls me)
This company is at least a few years old. I remember seeing zipcars zip around the streets of boston for at least a few years. Its less of a "car rental" company as a car-sharing company- Rentals are hourly and only for program members. Its designed for urban people who only need a car occasionally.
And as for security, the cars are GPS tracked and linked to the central database. The car only opens if youre the one who reserved it on the website, so they know who has it.
...blue security takes another step, besides re-spamming the spammers sites. They also directly contact every advertiser featured in spam, asking them to stop paying these spammers because they sent emails to X number of users who arent interested. It may not be very effective, who knows. But its a great idea. If companies stopped paying for spam, it would sure dry up pretty fast, and the companies care allot more about the customers than the spammers. Im sure at least *some* companies genuinely dont even realize that the publicity firms they hired are using spam.
The original command and conquer (full name Command & Conquer: Tiberium Dawn, although noone called it that) was number 1.
Command and Conquer: Tiberium Sun was the second.
This one is the third.
RA, RA2, Generals are seperate franchises.
You're right that destroying your account doesnt prevent a new one, but it so throughly and irrevocably destroys your progress that is presents a very serious obstacle to resuming play, wheras your drinking example doesnt. If you burn all my booze, i can go buy more thats exactly the same. If you destroy my 60 priest with Tier 2 epics, thats months and months setback that i cant buy....except on ebay, i guess. For a #$%^ton of money.
So yeah, its not perfect, but its a hell of a big obstacle. Worked for my friend, anyway.
My friend had a better approach than deleting his stuff. He download a out-of-date version of WOWglider (a blatant hack), knowing that blizzards hack detection system would catch it immediately, and left it running overnight. Came back in the morning to find his account permanantly banned by blizzard.
Why strap yourself to the pole when you can get the
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I don't think you understand how credit cards work, let alone this law. The law makes it illegal for any company with OPERATIONS in the US to faciliate payments between US citizens and gambling sites offshore. This does not mean just US companies. For instance, my HSBC (Which is a UK company) credit card is also prohibited from doing this. Technically, if a company with zero US presence were to give me a credit card, they would be allowed to do as they wished--- but without a US presence, how would they bill me?
The obvious flaw is that you need to create each one, and they therefore are inherently more limited in number. Text-based chaptchas are generated by a computer- pictures of pandas and their associated word would have to be done by hand.
Well, it all depends on how much you enjoy the process. If you enjoy spending hours dealing with Dell and writing letters and such, then your cost is quite negated anyway. If, on the other hand, you view dealing with Customer support people as being even worse than actually working, then yes, it is correct for me to value that time at my working salary- Id much rather spend the time working and getting paid for it.
You missed the entire point. It may not be "ok" to have 1% of my income stolen each year, but that doesnt mean im going to spend 5% of my income (in this case, in the form of time invested) to prevent the 1% getting stolen.
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I have a friend who's hobby used to be "glass", but I think the parole board might not like him delving back into it, even if it was in the christmas spirit.
...and while im dreaming, Id like a pony.
...but why vote at all? (I don't think i personally agree with this article, but I definitely found it mathematically sound, and a very interesting arguement. Just at least read it before you mod me "-1, unamerican".)
I suspect his cat is more intelligent and better at the game than plenty of the people Ive grouped with. And probably speaks english better than the farmers. I dont see how blizzard could possibly find out, unless the infamous Warden is now rigged to take over your webcam too.
...and a girlfriend. Oh, and you dont refresh slashdot every 10 minutes. Then again, maybe taking care of the last one would help with the first three.... but ill let someone else check and get back to me :)
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My Nokia 3120 has this. Its obnoxiously complicated to activate [about 9 key strokes, plus entering the time for expiration] compared to just switching to vibrate normally [2 keystrokes], but it does have it. I use it every day. Its one of the two features that make me refuse to give up my crappy old nokia, the other one being its ability to have its "normal" mode ring AND vibrate at the same time (lots of phones, particularly LG and samsung, seem to lack this ability, which makes it possible to actually know your phone is ringing in a crowded, loud train station or club). I also am fond of its "ascending" ring option, wherin the ringer starts very quietly and then gets loud.
Now what I would REALLY love to see is a phone that has a ring mode where it vibrates first for a few seconds, then beeps maybe once, waits a few more seconds, and then breaks out in a full ring. This would let me keep it on normal all the time without disrupting movies, meetings, etc.
I spent insane amounts of hours EVERY weekday playing starcraft/red alert/whatever else was out at the time, and my grades were-- Ok, i see your point.
Copper lines are classified and regulated as a Telecommunications service, wheras FiOS (even though once you get it, verizon uses it for your regular phone too) is considered a information service, and is not subject to third party resale by people like speakeasy. This is very unlikely to change any time soon, because Congress just passed a major revamp of the Telecommunications act last summer which strengthened this distinction. Basically, under the new rules, anyone can sell you POTS services or anything over them, but other network operators (cable, fios) are free to offer you any services they want (so comcast can offer phone over its coax, for instance, while verizon can offer cable over fios) but they dont have to share their networks. Kindof creates a duopoly, AFAIK, between your local cable provider and Verizon, with both offering all the same services. As for the whole "omg pipe dream!!!!" people, I have had FiOS in my house for almost two years. Its not a pipe dream. Its the most reliable, fastest, best connection I've ever seen in the residential class, and Ive had comcast, Covad DSL, speakeasy DSL, and Verizon DSL. Absolutely no complaints. I originally kept both my Covad DSL line and the FiOS, thinking i would get redundancy that way, but after 3 months without a single FiOS outage, I said to hell with the extra 70 bucks a month.
Sure, gadgets are blatant knockoffs. But they arent blatant knockoffs of OS X widgets. Theyre blatant knockoffs of Konfabulator (Now Yahoo Widgets), which is what Apple knocked off too.
Apple fanbois dont get to complain about this one.
All MS did was copy Apples copying. Now admittedly, there are plenty of legitimant copyjobs going back and forth between both companies, but this isnt one of them.
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I tend to agree... unless this money was going to some cause besides the professor himself, this would last about as long at my school as it took the administration to catch wind of it. On the other hand, if he was donating 100% of the money to pretty much anything, it would probably be let slide.
The ~10 yard range reduces the effectiveness of this in allot of walking-by type things, but in places like Elevators or Escalators with those Captivate screens it could be a home run. That gives it time to scan everyone's devices, and still have you in viewing range for long enough to show the tailored ads. But my question is, without hat exactly are they going to identify about you just by what type of bluetooth devices you carry? Not allot that i can think of, except maybe identifying total geeks (tons of devices), or i guess maybe what Cell carrier you use. Doesnt seem terribly useful to me. However, TFA says that its anonymous, but trackable by device... This means that if they partnered with makers of POS systems, they could "anonymously" track what/where you were buying, too, and then recognize you as you walked near their ad screens. Imagine, buy a starbucks coffee, go back up to your office, and then the same time the next day when you take the elevator down, the screens are showing nothing but dunkin donuts ads...
So THATS why ive been on hold since last thursday!
Would someone please tell that to Barry and Elliot, Bernie and Phyll, Raymour and Flannigan, Mattress Giant, and every other furniture store whose horriblly annoying ads I have to listen to every other commercial on the way to work when I just want to hear the $#%^@$ traffic report?
> I think you'r mixing up "troubleshooting" and "fixing". The first does not imply the second.
It all depends how you define "trouble-shooting", and although I would tend to agree with you that the number sounds high at first glance, keep in mind that the /. crowd probably uses a higher standard when defining troubleshooting than they did. For all we know they defined it as "checking to make sure the cords all appear to be connected to sockets they seem to fit into" (thats about the limit of my moms "troubleshooting" before she gives up and calls me)
This company is at least a few years old. I remember seeing zipcars zip around the streets of boston for at least a few years. Its less of a "car rental" company as a car-sharing company- Rentals are hourly and only for program members. Its designed for urban people who only need a car occasionally. And as for security, the cars are GPS tracked and linked to the central database. The car only opens if youre the one who reserved it on the website, so they know who has it.
...blue security takes another step, besides re-spamming the spammers sites. They also directly contact every advertiser featured in spam, asking them to stop paying these spammers because they sent emails to X number of users who arent interested. It may not be very effective, who knows. But its a great idea. If companies stopped paying for spam, it would sure dry up pretty fast, and the companies care allot more about the customers than the spammers. Im sure at least *some* companies genuinely dont even realize that the publicity firms they hired are using spam.
The original command and conquer (full name Command & Conquer: Tiberium Dawn, although noone called it that) was number 1. Command and Conquer: Tiberium Sun was the second. This one is the third. RA, RA2, Generals are seperate franchises.
You're right that destroying your account doesnt prevent a new one, but it so throughly and irrevocably destroys your progress that is presents a very serious obstacle to resuming play, wheras your drinking example doesnt. If you burn all my booze, i can go buy more thats exactly the same. If you destroy my 60 priest with Tier 2 epics, thats months and months setback that i cant buy. ...except on ebay, i guess. For a #$%^ton of money.
So yeah, its not perfect, but its a hell of a big obstacle. Worked for my friend, anyway.
...just let the Sirens kick you out.
My friend had a better approach than deleting his stuff. He download a out-of-date version of WOWglider (a blatant hack), knowing that blizzards hack detection system would catch it immediately, and left it running overnight. Came back in the morning to find his account permanantly banned by blizzard.
Why strap yourself to the pole when you can get the
Wasn't australia FOUNDED by outlaws?