Heh okay I think I responded before I thought too much about the site. I am in agreement that I think it's fake too. I did a look up on Rodona's supposed ICQ number and there is no such user.
After reading his recount on hacking into these peoples' computers and deleting their spam program, I honestly don't think he did enough. He should have taken them to court, suing for the damages, and hopefully send their asses to jail for fraud. If enough of these people get caught and something DONE to them, it will be a deterrant for when other people are thinking of spamming. These people just think they'll make money, and think that they won't go to jail.
I do like all the pictures and home addresses of the spammers. I hope they know that everyone knows who they are! hahahaha
Well you may have them on a technicality there, but the essence is still the same. People are sending junk calls/short messages to phones which the recipient has to pay for the messages! What pisses me off even more was when I talked to Sprint PCS the other day about changing my service. Apparently, they are getting rid of the 1st incoming minute free deal. Unfortunately that means that any calls from telemarketers will be paid for out of the plan. Even if they call, you say "this is my cell phone you bitch, don't ever fucking call me again!!!" that's still a minute of time that you have to pay for.
I think the cell phone companies need to take a stand and start doing something about this. Either make cell phone useage unlimited... or keep the first incoming minute free at least, I mean geez.
No, I did not pay at the end. They lost track of me since I moved, and because of the credit card fraud I don't think they made an effort to locate me. If my aunt (who is taking the bar to become a lawyer) said that I had to pay I would've attempted to pay, but they had no right to charge me for their lack of security she said. It would've gone to court.
It wasn't really my friend's fault either, he was just logged in from work, and he found out like at the end of the work day that the gov't computer got hacked.
We were all in college and didn't have any money anyways.:)
I think it's more like a step in the wrong direction. The wrong direction being, if you DON'T pay, they won't allow your traffic on the network. I can see people squealing about that one, but, if they get enough companies paying, they can simply mail the remaining ones and say "hey everyone else is paying, we're going to block your sites if you don't ante up".
Broadband is almost in a monopoly position in many areas. I have TW Roadrunner at home and for a $53 bill every month I've got cable (60+ channels) and cable modem service. TW got into a dispute with Channel 10(CBS)/ONN where Channel 10 told TW that they would not allow them to give subscribers CBS if they didn't also add ONN (Ohio News Network) to the list. One of my friends who works for ONN gets Americast and Roadrunner (and pays a premium since he doesn't have TW cable) and if there was another broadband option I'm sure he would've changed.
So... legal? maybe, maybe not (INAL)... it seems to me that that's the sort of direction they're heading though...
And if they can do that with companies, what about people who are using their connection for gaming? They can tell these subscribers that they'll get faster service (better routing) if they pay more per month. And the people will have to go for it if they like to game and there isn't another high speed option in their area.
Well, about 3 years ago I was running a MUD at an ISP, and we had one shell account that 3 of us shared. They knew that we were sharing it, but all they said once was "you should get separate accounts" but didn't take any action other than that. (technically it was against their TOS, but it seemed like a loose rule since they acted like it was a suggestion more than a hard and fast rule).
Anyways, one of the guys worked for the government and was logged onto the shell from his work machine. The government computer got hacked into and someone running a packet sniffer got ahold of our account's password. They did some damage to the machine (not sure what) and our account was terminated without any sort of email to my regular email address.
Then I got a call from my credit card company. Someone had tried to charge $3200 to my credit card, and the limit wasn't that high so it was denied. Then they tried $2500 and that was denied. Then they tried $1500 and that went through. They told me that it was out of the city this ISP was in, and it was for "electronic merchandise". They said that it seemed suspicious since most of my purchases were small, so they called me to ask about it.
I told my credit card company that I had an account with this ISP, and that I had used my credit card with them once, to pay the first month's bill. After that we sent a check every month.
I disputed the charges, and never heard anything about it again so I'm assuming that they resolved it. The ISP sent me bills for $3200-$1500 every month until I moved and they lost track of me.
After I got off the phone with the CC company, I called the ISP, and ended up calling the president of the ISP at home (he had a very nice wife but the guy was a dick). He said that they were charging me for the time it took them to fix the machine, billed at $80(something) an hour. They said that I broke the TOS so they were acting like I hacked the machine even though they KNEW that neither I nor my friends did.
Beware. Shit happens, it can happen to you. Some ISPs are just plain dicks. Closing your acct is one thing... trying to bill you $3200 and commit credit card fraud is another.
You *could* do it, but even if you did, think of this. My mom (who is 48 now) was a stay at home mom, and her main beef was that there aren't that many other stay at home mothers anymore. There was one other in the neighborhood we used to live in. That's how families could have one car and not go crazy, in the 50's-60's. The stay at home moms had their friends in the neighborhood for company and didn't need to go places during the day.
Well I've gone to the record stores to look at CDs and a lot of places have headphones that you can listen to a bunch of new albums. I've bought some CDs without ever having heard the artist on the radio, because I put on the headphones and listened to the first 15-30 secs of each song on the CD, then decided if it was worth purchasing.
I was talking at the bar this evening with one of the guys that runs www.etree.org and he said that a LOT of bands ENCOURAGE the distribution of their live show songs. Metallica is one of them. The quality of the show songs are not nearly what they are for the recordings that the bands themselves do, so they really don't hurt their sales. I think what a lot of bands are complaining about is the distribution of their recorded-for-CD songs which for the general population tend to replace a CD that the people would have otherwise bought.
If Napster was more like http://www.mp3.com I don't think they would have nearly the amount of problems they're having. Napster's facilitating the distribution of songs that the artists haven't given permission to be distributed.
I disagree. I think the two terms are interchangeable, at least in this case. If you don't know about it you can't be intentionally spreading it. Using a Microsoft product is not even necessarily knowingly spreading viruses. People who clicked on the attachment didn't know that it was a virus. People who DID know it was a virus and still clicked on the attachment, should be charged with stupidity, but basically, it wouldn't hold up in court, because you can't really prove that they intentionally (knowingly) spread it. The person who WROTE the code, however, they have a lot better chance proving that they distributed it. If they wrote it, they knew it was a virus. If they unintentially spread it out, on accident, then they still didn't knowingly spread the virus. They still didn't INTENTIALLY spread the virus. See? the terms are interchangeable.
As a few other people have said, the key word is "intentional". Intentially doing anything harmful is generally illegal. Intentially giving someone AIDS is illegal, but if you don't know you have AIDS, it's not punishable. So intentially creating a computer virus and passing it around is illegal in PA, but if you inadvertantly received the virus and unintentially passed it around, you can't be punished. Makes sense to me. I think most states should do this.
Well if you noticed, most online companies that require credit card info also ask for billing address. So if someone takes your credit card, they may or may not know what the billing address for the card is. Asking for the expiration date makes sure that you have the card (since statements don't have that on there).
But even with all those precautions, people STILL can get your info and use it. I have had problems with this myself, and it has been hell and stressful to find out that someone has been using my information. Someone in Cleveland used my information to get a cell phone (which when I provided writing that it wasn't me, they did not hold any claims against me) and then, 7 months later (even with the credit fraud alert on my credit) they managed to get a landline phone and a couple more cell phones from a different company. Again, they didn't hold this against me, however I was under false impression that I could find out who did this and get them arrested (land line phones are connected to a house which is connected to people who live there). I couldn't get any info from the phone companies to give to the police, so nothing came of it.
Just be careful with your information, especially on the web. If this can happen to me, it can happen to anybody. It didn't deter me from using online banking and using my credit card on secure sites (since I don't think these criminals got my info from the web since they are in the same state as I am) but it sure is something to think about.
Apple is known for having simple and easy to use computers. I'm wondering if these new mice will be easy for newbies to figure out. Like, if you would be aboard the Star Trek ship, and not having watched Star Trek before, would you know how to open one of those sliding doors if it didn't open for you when you walked up to it? Probably not. Hand someone a mouse without obvious buttons, and they won't know what to do with it. With a mechanical mouse (one with buttons that is), you can fiddle around with it, press the buttons, and see if that does anything on the screen.
What I'd like to see would be more like a 3d mouse. You hold it in your hand rather than laying it on a table. I recall seeing something similar for presentations, but looking at the description, it looked like it was more for just button pressing to move the slides rather than for moving a cursor on the screen.
Actually it would be gay (or hermaphroditic -sp?) if I actually did "grow a pair" since I am also my sister's sister. Unfortunately my anecdote is true, so it is pretty lame (although I was looking for a couple laughs by posting it...) I think my sister is some sort of freak of nature though since she has played Catz/Dogz on the computer for years and still isn't sick of it. She also learned HTML basics in a couple hours on a weekend when she was 10 (now she is almost 12). I should actually watch what I say about her on/. she will probably become a reader soon and see my archived posts about her...
What do you do, lurk around on/., keeping reloading the front page for new articles every 15 seconds just so you can have the first post and get lowered karma from being moderated down? Wow what a privilege to have no life, I bow down to your greatness. I think I will get real work done and only check/. once in awhile...
I have to say, I played Doom only once, and played it against my (then) 8 yr old sister (I was 20) and she beat me really really bad. I haven't had any desire to play those kinds of games ever since. I still have not lived down that kind of humiliation.
Well, the thing is... if the auctions say "unopened retail box" AND "full version" or "upgrade" with "not OEM" then I don't see how they should be able to shut down the auction. If the seller is not being truthful about what they're selling then they will get negative feedback from the people they sold it to. I haven't looked at how these people worded their auctions, but I'd like to see if they were clear about what they were auctioning. This MS character could've thought that it was OEM if they didn't say specifically "NOT OEM" (and those are illegal to sell without hardware..)
I wonder if they took down ALL MS software sales or JUST the ones that seemed like they COULD possibly be illegal. (because they weren't clear that it wasn't OEM)
There IS a place that you can put your own mp3's on... www.mp3.com. On there, they ONLY have mp3s that the person with the rights to have let them put them on there. You might want to think about doing it with yours. I've come across some bands that are pretty good on mp3.com that no one else has heard of, since about the only big name band on there is TMBG.
I agree, just when I thought it was becoming "chic" to have things natural and unscented. There are quite a few people who are allergic (or just highly sensitive) to unnatural scents (and let's face it, they don't crush up grass to make a grass scent just as they don't put strawberries in strawberry gum/shampoo/etc)
My mom used to throw a hissy fit if we chewed non-mint GUM in the same room as her (especially grape). Not to mention opening every window in the house in the dead of winter if the hairspray we used was scented. She's an extreme example, but there are tons of people who are sensitive to scents and have problems when other people wear perfumes.
So this is JUST what we need (not)... a lot more scents to 1) irritate the sensitive folk and 2) confuse everyone elses' noses with all the different scents on things mixed together.
Well actually there is a perfume that I saw over at Abercrombie & Fitch (IIRC) that was supposed to smell like freshly cut grass. I dunno, if you ask me, I thought it smelled kinda nasty. I'm not sure I'd want to put on a perfume, and have the Hot Hunk of the Week(tm) smell me and say "hmm smells like you've already been rolling around in the hay today". Unless it's for the computer geeks who don't get outside and want to give people the illusion that they step outdoors once in awhile. It doesn't change my perception that it smelled pretty gross, and not very much like freshly cut grass. Grass yes. Moldy grass even. But freshly cut? I guess that's probably subjective.
Now, why anyone would want their tennis balls to smell like that is also beyond me. Unless you buy tennis balls and want people who go sniffing in your stuff to think that you actually get your fat ass outside and play some tennis, just actually USING your tennis balls outside will give them a nice fresh grassy smell. You can even coordinate and smell like grass yourself from A&F.
If I had any hope of solving any of these, I sincerely doubt I would have any money problems in the first place. I'd probably be a multibillionaire genius working for a hotshot company who will do whatever I want since I'm so irreplaceable. And then I'd be doing problems like that in my spare time because I'm working on some REAL problems for work.
Isn't there a "largest" known prime number? Take double that + 2 and isn't it disproven? Of course I'm the furthest thing from a mathematician and I was really happy when I knew the answer to "the longest side of a right triangle" on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, so I'm probably wrong but that's what comes to mind if I recall some of the math I had way back when.
IANAH (I'm not a historian)... but I would imagine since Cuba is only a short boat ride away from the USA and China is way across the Pacific ocean, Cuba could pose a more serious direct threat than the Chinese. Plus, wasn't the embargo placed back in the 60's when we WERE having problems with Cuba? It's not the fact that they're communist moreso as to how they treat their citizens and how much of a threat they are to the USA.
Well basically you have a communist government telling one of its business owners what to do. Considering the businesses in China are all government owned, they feel they have a right to have published what they want published. It's certainly easier for them to make rules than it is for us to make rules. If China wants to have their internet economy growth to fizzle, I guess that's their own perogative. Maybe one of these days they'll see that they'll get more productivity out of their billion inhabitants if they go to a more capitalist economy.
Hey, watch it. You're posting copyrighted code in its entirety. Next thing we know, some Phillipine (sp?) dude is going to write a letter to Andover saying that Slashdot is posting copyrighted code, and to remove it immediately!!
The current Boo might be stupid, but I would do better! Let me take it over! I will open source their website and sportswear, get lots of money from investors, and inflate their stock even though we won't turn a profit!
I'll release the spandex shorts under the GPL so other people can make their own spandex shorts. But mine will have the "OFFICIAL" Boo.com logo on them, and we'll operate a call center for when people have trouble putting them on. But they'll only get support for 30 days after buying them, if they need help with daily use of their spandex shorts, they'll have to pay us a $125 per incident fee.
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Heh okay I think I responded before I thought too much about the site. I am in agreement that I think it's fake too. I did a look up on Rodona's supposed ICQ number and there is no such user.
http://wwp.icq.com/3483645
After reading his recount on hacking into these peoples' computers and deleting their spam program, I honestly don't think he did enough. He should have taken them to court, suing for the damages, and hopefully send their asses to jail for fraud. If enough of these people get caught and something DONE to them, it will be a deterrant for when other people are thinking of spamming. These people just think they'll make money, and think that they won't go to jail.
I do like all the pictures and home addresses of the spammers. I hope they know that everyone knows who they are! hahahaha
Well you may have them on a technicality there, but the essence is still the same. People are sending junk calls/short messages to phones which the recipient has to pay for the messages! What pisses me off even more was when I talked to Sprint PCS the other day about changing my service. Apparently, they are getting rid of the 1st incoming minute free deal. Unfortunately that means that any calls from telemarketers will be paid for out of the plan. Even if they call, you say "this is my cell phone you bitch, don't ever fucking call me again!!!" that's still a minute of time that you have to pay for.
I think the cell phone companies need to take a stand and start doing something about this. Either make cell phone useage unlimited... or keep the first incoming minute free at least, I mean geez.
No, I did not pay at the end. They lost track of me since I moved, and because of the credit card fraud I don't think they made an effort to locate me. If my aunt (who is taking the bar to become a lawyer) said that I had to pay I would've attempted to pay, but they had no right to charge me for their lack of security she said. It would've gone to court.
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It wasn't really my friend's fault either, he was just logged in from work, and he found out like at the end of the work day that the gov't computer got hacked.
We were all in college and didn't have any money anyways.
I think it's more like a step in the wrong direction. The wrong direction being, if you DON'T pay, they won't allow your traffic on the network. I can see people squealing about that one, but, if they get enough companies paying, they can simply mail the remaining ones and say "hey everyone else is paying, we're going to block your sites if you don't ante up".
... it seems to me that that's the sort of direction they're heading though...
Broadband is almost in a monopoly position in many areas. I have TW Roadrunner at home and for a $53 bill every month I've got cable (60+ channels) and cable modem service. TW got into a dispute with Channel 10(CBS)/ONN where Channel 10 told TW that they would not allow them to give subscribers CBS if they didn't also add ONN (Ohio News Network) to the list. One of my friends who works for ONN gets Americast and Roadrunner (and pays a premium since he doesn't have TW cable) and if there was another broadband option I'm sure he would've changed.
So... legal? maybe, maybe not (INAL)
And if they can do that with companies, what about people who are using their connection for gaming? They can tell these subscribers that they'll get faster service (better routing) if they pay more per month. And the people will have to go for it if they like to game and there isn't another high speed option in their area.
Well, about 3 years ago I was running a MUD at an ISP, and we had one shell account that 3 of us shared. They knew that we were sharing it, but all they said once was "you should get separate accounts" but didn't take any action other than that. (technically it was against their TOS, but it seemed like a loose rule since they acted like it was a suggestion more than a hard and fast rule).
Anyways, one of the guys worked for the government and was logged onto the shell from his work machine. The government computer got hacked into and someone running a packet sniffer got ahold of our account's password. They did some damage to the machine (not sure what) and our account was terminated without any sort of email to my regular email address.
Then I got a call from my credit card company. Someone had tried to charge $3200 to my credit card, and the limit wasn't that high so it was denied. Then they tried $2500 and that was denied. Then they tried $1500 and that went through. They told me that it was out of the city this ISP was in, and it was for "electronic merchandise". They said that it seemed suspicious since most of my purchases were small, so they called me to ask about it.
I told my credit card company that I had an account with this ISP, and that I had used my credit card with them once, to pay the first month's bill. After that we sent a check every month.
I disputed the charges, and never heard anything about it again so I'm assuming that they resolved it. The ISP sent me bills for $3200-$1500 every month until I moved and they lost track of me.
After I got off the phone with the CC company, I called the ISP, and ended up calling the president of the ISP at home (he had a very nice wife but the guy was a dick). He said that they were charging me for the time it took them to fix the machine, billed at $80(something) an hour. They said that I broke the TOS so they were acting like I hacked the machine even though they KNEW that neither I nor my friends did.
Beware. Shit happens, it can happen to you. Some ISPs are just plain dicks. Closing your acct is one thing... trying to bill you $3200 and commit credit card fraud is another.
You *could* do it, but even if you did, think of this. My mom (who is 48 now) was a stay at home mom, and her main beef was that there aren't that many other stay at home mothers anymore. There was one other in the neighborhood we used to live in. That's how families could have one car and not go crazy, in the 50's-60's. The stay at home moms had their friends in the neighborhood for company and didn't need to go places during the day.
Well I've gone to the record stores to look at CDs and a lot of places have headphones that you can listen to a bunch of new albums. I've bought some CDs without ever having heard the artist on the radio, because I put on the headphones and listened to the first 15-30 secs of each song on the CD, then decided if it was worth purchasing.
I was talking at the bar this evening with one of the guys that runs www.etree.org and he said that a LOT of bands ENCOURAGE the distribution of their live show songs. Metallica is one of them. The quality of the show songs are not nearly what they are for the recordings that the bands themselves do, so they really don't hurt their sales. I think what a lot of bands are complaining about is the distribution of their recorded-for-CD songs which for the general population tend to replace a CD that the people would have otherwise bought.
If Napster was more like http://www.mp3.com I don't think they would have nearly the amount of problems they're having. Napster's facilitating the distribution of songs that the artists haven't given permission to be distributed.
I disagree. I think the two terms are interchangeable, at least in this case. If you don't know about it you can't be intentionally spreading it. Using a Microsoft product is not even necessarily knowingly spreading viruses. People who clicked on the attachment didn't know that it was a virus. People who DID know it was a virus and still clicked on the attachment, should be charged with stupidity, but basically, it wouldn't hold up in court, because you can't really prove that they intentionally (knowingly) spread it. The person who WROTE the code, however, they have a lot better chance proving that they distributed it. If they wrote it, they knew it was a virus. If they unintentially spread it out, on accident, then they still didn't knowingly spread the virus. They still didn't INTENTIALLY spread the virus. See? the terms are interchangeable.
As a few other people have said, the key word is "intentional". Intentially doing anything harmful is generally illegal. Intentially giving someone AIDS is illegal, but if you don't know you have AIDS, it's not punishable. So intentially creating a computer virus and passing it around is illegal in PA, but if you inadvertantly received the virus and unintentially passed it around, you can't be punished. Makes sense to me. I think most states should do this.
Well if you noticed, most online companies that require credit card info also ask for billing address. So if someone takes your credit card, they may or may not know what the billing address for the card is. Asking for the expiration date makes sure that you have the card (since statements don't have that on there).
But even with all those precautions, people STILL can get your info and use it. I have had problems with this myself, and it has been hell and stressful to find out that someone has been using my information. Someone in Cleveland used my information to get a cell phone (which when I provided writing that it wasn't me, they did not hold any claims against me) and then, 7 months later (even with the credit fraud alert on my credit) they managed to get a landline phone and a couple more cell phones from a different company. Again, they didn't hold this against me, however I was under false impression that I could find out who did this and get them arrested (land line phones are connected to a house which is connected to people who live there). I couldn't get any info from the phone companies to give to the police, so nothing came of it.
Just be careful with your information, especially on the web. If this can happen to me, it can happen to anybody. It didn't deter me from using online banking and using my credit card on secure sites (since I don't think these criminals got my info from the web since they are in the same state as I am) but it sure is something to think about.
Apple is known for having simple and easy to use computers. I'm wondering if these new mice will be easy for newbies to figure out. Like, if you would be aboard the Star Trek ship, and not having watched Star Trek before, would you know how to open one of those sliding doors if it didn't open for you when you walked up to it? Probably not. Hand someone a mouse without obvious buttons, and they won't know what to do with it. With a mechanical mouse (one with buttons that is), you can fiddle around with it, press the buttons, and see if that does anything on the screen.
What I'd like to see would be more like a 3d mouse. You hold it in your hand rather than laying it on a table. I recall seeing something similar for presentations, but looking at the description, it looked like it was more for just button pressing to move the slides rather than for moving a cursor on the screen.
Actually it would be gay (or hermaphroditic -sp?) if I actually did "grow a pair" since I am also my sister's sister. Unfortunately my anecdote is true, so it is pretty lame (although I was looking for a couple laughs by posting it...) I think my sister is some sort of freak of nature though since she has played Catz/Dogz on the computer for years and still isn't sick of it. She also learned HTML basics in a couple hours on a weekend when she was 10 (now she is almost 12). I should actually watch what I say about her on /. she will probably become a reader soon and see my archived posts about her...
What do you do, lurk around on /., keeping reloading the front page for new articles every 15 seconds just so you can have the first post and get lowered karma from being moderated down? Wow what a privilege to have no life, I bow down to your greatness. I think I will get real work done and only check /. once in awhile...
I have to say, I played Doom only once, and played it against my (then) 8 yr old sister (I was 20) and she beat me really really bad. I haven't had any desire to play those kinds of games ever since. I still have not lived down that kind of humiliation.
Well, the thing is... if the auctions say "unopened retail box" AND "full version" or "upgrade" with "not OEM" then I don't see how they should be able to shut down the auction. If the seller is not being truthful about what they're selling then they will get negative feedback from the people they sold it to. I haven't looked at how these people worded their auctions, but I'd like to see if they were clear about what they were auctioning. This MS character could've thought that it was OEM if they didn't say specifically "NOT OEM" (and those are illegal to sell without hardware..)
I wonder if they took down ALL MS software sales or JUST the ones that seemed like they COULD possibly be illegal. (because they weren't clear that it wasn't OEM)
There IS a place that you can put your own mp3's on... www.mp3.com. On there, they ONLY have mp3s that the person with the rights to have let them put them on there. You might want to think about doing it with yours. I've come across some bands that are pretty good on mp3.com that no one else has heard of, since about the only big name band on there is TMBG.
I agree, just when I thought it was becoming "chic" to have things natural and unscented. There are quite a few people who are allergic (or just highly sensitive) to unnatural scents (and let's face it, they don't crush up grass to make a grass scent just as they don't put strawberries in strawberry gum/shampoo/etc)
My mom used to throw a hissy fit if we chewed non-mint GUM in the same room as her (especially grape). Not to mention opening every window in the house in the dead of winter if the hairspray we used was scented. She's an extreme example, but there are tons of people who are sensitive to scents and have problems when other people wear perfumes.
So this is JUST what we need (not)... a lot more scents to 1) irritate the sensitive folk and 2) confuse everyone elses' noses with all the different scents on things mixed together.
Well actually there is a perfume that I saw over at Abercrombie & Fitch (IIRC) that was supposed to smell like freshly cut grass. I dunno, if you ask me, I thought it smelled kinda nasty. I'm not sure I'd want to put on a perfume, and have the Hot Hunk of the Week(tm) smell me and say "hmm smells like you've already been rolling around in the hay today". Unless it's for the computer geeks who don't get outside and want to give people the illusion that they step outdoors once in awhile. It doesn't change my perception that it smelled pretty gross, and not very much like freshly cut grass. Grass yes. Moldy grass even. But freshly cut? I guess that's probably subjective.
Now, why anyone would want their tennis balls to smell like that is also beyond me. Unless you buy tennis balls and want people who go sniffing in your stuff to think that you actually get your fat ass outside and play some tennis, just actually USING your tennis balls outside will give them a nice fresh grassy smell. You can even coordinate and smell like grass yourself from A&F.
If I had any hope of solving any of these, I sincerely doubt I would have any money problems in the first place. I'd probably be a multibillionaire genius working for a hotshot company who will do whatever I want since I'm so irreplaceable. And then I'd be doing problems like that in my spare time because I'm working on some REAL problems for work.
Isn't there a "largest" known prime number? Take double that + 2 and isn't it disproven?
Of course I'm the furthest thing from a mathematician and I was really happy when I knew the answer to "the longest side of a right triangle" on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, so I'm probably wrong but that's what comes to mind if I recall some of the math I had way back when.
IANAH (I'm not a historian)... but I would imagine since Cuba is only a short boat ride away from the USA and China is way across the Pacific ocean, Cuba could pose a more serious direct threat than the Chinese. Plus, wasn't the embargo placed back in the 60's when we WERE having problems with Cuba? It's not the fact that they're communist moreso as to how they treat their citizens and how much of a threat they are to the USA.
Well basically you have a communist government telling one of its business owners what to do. Considering the businesses in China are all government owned, they feel they have a right to have published what they want published. It's certainly easier for them to make rules than it is for us to make rules. If China wants to have their internet economy growth to fizzle, I guess that's their own perogative. Maybe one of these days they'll see that they'll get more productivity out of their billion inhabitants if they go to a more capitalist economy.
Hey, watch it. You're posting copyrighted code in its entirety. Next thing we know, some Phillipine (sp?) dude is going to write a letter to Andover saying that Slashdot is posting copyrighted code, and to remove it immediately!!
The current Boo might be stupid, but I would do better! Let me take it over! I will open source their website and sportswear, get lots of money from investors, and inflate their stock even though we won't turn a profit!
I'll release the spandex shorts under the GPL so other people can make their own spandex shorts. But mine will have the "OFFICIAL" Boo.com logo on them, and we'll operate a call center for when people have trouble putting them on. But they'll only get support for 30 days after buying them, if they need help with daily use of their spandex shorts, they'll have to pay us a $125 per incident fee.
I'll be rich, I tell you, rich.