I'm right with you on the taxes. I file early and pay on April 15th. Is disappointing to see how many people that have the perception that 'you get money when you file for taxes' for the regular wage slaves. It took me a while to 'get it' too but I see the light and I've been a crusader for my friends by constantly asking them how much tax they paid come the first quarter of the year. It started off with "I didn't have to pay, I got money back" type of comment and even then, they still didn't get it. People care more about the cash they get BACK that could have always been theirs, even if it was theirs in the first place. People just don't like to save and like to run up credit cards.
People who say "I got money back", I then ask them if I can borrow a thousand dollars for 6 months and show the comparison between interest free vs a money market savings account. They also don't understand why I choose to pay taxes vs withholding.
The only debt I have is a mortgage - tax deductible interest, and all my cars are paid off and they're less than 5 years old.
I want my lightsaber and a personal transporter. I do not want a flying car because that means that the drivers who are idiots will then be in the air. (Disclaimer-I am a pilot) I don't want technology displacing pilot education and the requirements to become a pilot.
There are a good bit of us here that remember when- you couldn't buy a phone, you had to rent them. when Russia was the bad guys. (anybody born in the '90s -huh?) Now everyone has a spycamera. Pull strings on toys. (Today's See and Says are battery powered, Mrs. Beasley - huh?) Movies used to have cartoons in front of them
I remember the MGM movies had Tom and Jerry, UA movies had Pink Panther. Now it's only Pixar and commercials.
Stock image houses that use a mix of OS, keywords are still seperate. If Extensis Portfolio is used, metadata is only viewable within Portfolio.
Programmers that use a trimix (Win,Mac,Lin) usually rely on comments within the code.
I don't see the point of metadata in these cases and would be a bad thing to only rely on 1 OS to handle. If MS would write a handler for Mac and Linux then it may have some use but If I can't see meta data from a MS office document authored in Vista on my Mac then I don't want metadata to be used at all for 'meta notes'.
AOL's policy now is to just have the SPF record and a reverse DNS. I run a mail server from my house (perfectly legitimate) and I have mail/web servers in 2 major cities. I control my DNS so as soon as I published the SPF records, AOL/Compuserve/Netscape started to receive mail from my servers. I have web customers with compuserve email addresses where mail was getting bounced from their website form (they didn't want another email address from their domain to worry about) as well as a spouse with friends that have AOL addresses. Once I got the SPF record, it flowed.
They've implemented the Sender Policy Framework which was a real pain in the ass for me as well. All AOL and compuserve addresses were affected by it. Instead of a normal bounce message, they did put in the RFC that was violated so I gotta hand it to them that they did explain why the message was bounced. If you put in the SPF record in your DNS, AOL will accept your mail. You can find out more about it here: http://www.openspf.org/
You know, I gotta say that AOL is the best ISP for the computer unsavvy user ever since they've tagged on their anti virus and anti-spyware packages (except for their own crappy software).
It really is amazing how many people don't know email let alone what their POP/SMTP/Username/Passwords are. Those people need AOL. And might I add that printing is still a mystery to most of the AOL folk.
You know, we really get tired of MOST of the dupes here and as we have discussed before, sometimes dupes are a good thing because we don't get all the stories because we're not connected all the time.
This is the first I have seen this story posted here although judging by some of the comments, a quick search would display the duplicate story. I wonder if there should be a notification icon or something to denote dupes though. Just to appease the dupe hating crowd.
The phone was in a protected area where 'priveleged' employees went. Daytime and nighttime managers were different and nighttime was too busy to police the phone. Some of the 'priveleged' employees would let their friends in or the nighttime manager would let just about anybody in. Part of the fun was watching them try to use the phone and get a totally diferent number or a non-existent number:-)
I worked at a place where there were teenage workers and at a time before _everyone_ had a cell phone. We had the Merlin phone system and I had implemented a dial code if you wanted to dial out. Well, if I changed the code in the morning, by that night the teens had the new code so in addition to the code, I had remapped the keys so that 1 was 4, 2 was 5 and so forth. There were many combinations I used like 1=7, 2=8, or 1=3, 4=6. After changing the pattern for a while, some of the teens could dial by tone and they figured out the pattern. What worked was when I removed the tone for the first digit then kept the weird map for the rest of the digits.
Someone will be able to get Cap'n Crunch's head to animate as goatse. I just hope they do it after they get the box home and not while it's on the shelf.
That's a damn good point. I don't want murderers or rapists on my streets, at all. Get em out.
But jailing someone for stealing a digital 'copy' where it doesn't hurt anyone is ridiculous. So the content creator maybe lost out on a 'lost' sale. Let that content provider SUE for monetary damages if need be.
Now if the person makes digital copies for profit, then I'm for jail time because they hurt commerce and busines in general.
I saw a site that actually used flash to deliver the fonts. It used javascript to feed the flash file from the content. I don't remember the site but it caught my eye because it used Garamond and Gill Sans and I could highlight the text (so it wasn't an image) on the page.
I believe they or some of the major carriers had to enter expensive contracts to 'up' the quality of the food which became cost prohibitive in the late 80's to mid 90's. The cheaper airlines (that ValueJet started after the demise of Eastern, AirTran, Ted, etc...) never had the traditional served food in the first place, they always had the bag snacks which now costs $5 to $7.
If you look at it from a fixed cost standpoint, it's the food that gets the complaints first well before clerk/attendant attitude so food gets cut. That fixed cost would fluctuate with competition.
My point was that it really wan't broken in the first place. Sometimes you got a decent meal, sometimes you didn't. So what. I'm on a mission from Point A to B, not eating prepared meals im crampled quarters. Now we get nothing except transportation.
The same people complain when there's a problem with their flight when they themselves cause it in the first place. (Relative[in-law] story here) You book a flight from a booking agency like Orbitz and not from the airline. It's only $20 cheaper. The flight takes you 6 hours out of your way then you complain that it does that instead of booking it from the airline itself and getting a direct flight.
The deal with airline food is that it was always provided as part of the fare or lagniappe, not an itemized cost to the fare.
The problem started when those people started to complain about the quality of 'free' things and how if they pay $X hundred amount for a fare, good food should come with it and the cost of transportation should be given for free.
Well I'm sory Mr. bitchy cheap complainer passenger (not directed to the parent poster unless you are one of those complainers), that's what first class is for. To expect the same quality food for coach that first class gets is just retarded but your little pea brain just doesn't get it. Did you know that you could actually request a better meal for free if you requested it a day in advance Mr. compainer??? No, you didn't. You're the type that doesn't prepare and expect everybody to wait hand and foot on YOU just because YOU spent $X hundred dollars let alone the rest of the fare paying passengers you selfish twit.
So then complaints about food created a windstorm where most people (like me) didn't really care. You're on a goddamn plane ride getting from point A to point B, not eating at a first class restaurant that provides transportation services. That pressure caused the air transportation industry to react and do something stupid for the long haul. They were forced to have 'better' meals as a cost.
But Mr. Bitch didn't want to pay for it then fuel costs went up. Oh crap. So if someone complains about something (think 'squeaky wheel'), they're [the airline industry] going to oil the squeak. Well they can't get rid of the passenger so how about we get rid of the meals altogether so they don't have something to complain about.
Good going f*tard. Now we all starve.
So now, if you want to eat, you have to f*king pay extra to eat now for alot more crappier choices than before. $7.00 for a crappy cold biscuit, a cookie, and piece of cheese doesn't cut it Mr. complainer where before you could get an omlette, warm danish, , biscuit with jelly AND a cup of fruit - for FREE.
It's ironic that I'm complaining about complainers but I'm a good passenger. I hate bad passengers and cell phones in theatres.
The article mentions this too....how does that hold back the music industry? They're still making money (and probably more per song than through Apple) on people buying CD's.
Because those greedy bastards want a nickel EVERY TIME YOU HEAR THE SONG
Not that I really care but I've read that the failure rate is 2% to 5% with the return rate at 1%. It could be that the return rate is what Microsoft's official statement. If there is a manufactured shortage of units, it could be that Joe sixpack is waiting for Wal*Mart to restock before returning their overheating Xbox for a newer one.
The news reports that they are out of the console but I haven't looked in the stores to verify.
Who actually uses that convoluted Internet Zone setting in the first place? I remember seeing it in IE4 thinking that it was a good idea but how damn complicated it is to actualy use. AND, it's not portable so on each Win98 re-install, all your settings had to be rebuilt. Plus98 was more fun to reinstall and setup than that.
www.spoofedbank.com that looks like Bank of America can get a certificate on their own and the end user wouldn't even know. How many non-slashdotters never or even know how to read a certificate? They just clicky through.
Of course there would be somewhat of a trail if the cert is signed by a CA and that's the only way they won't get a popup.
Slashdot Mirror
just chairs.
"...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
The only debt I have is a mortgage - tax deductible interest,
I'm right with you on the taxes. I file early and pay on April 15th. Is disappointing to see how many people that have the perception that 'you get money when you file for taxes' for the regular wage slaves.
It took me a while to 'get it' too but I see the light and I've been a crusader for my friends by constantly asking them how much tax they paid come the first quarter of the year.
It started off with "I didn't have to pay, I got money back" type of comment and even then, they still didn't get it. People care more about the cash they get BACK that could have always been theirs, even if it was theirs in the first place.
People just don't like to save and like to run up credit cards.
People who say "I got money back", I then ask them if I can borrow a thousand dollars for 6 months and show the comparison between interest free vs a money market savings account.
They also don't understand why I choose to pay taxes vs withholding.
The only debt I have is a mortgage - tax deductible interest, and all my cars are paid off and they're less than 5 years old.
I want my lightsaber and a personal transporter.
I do not want a flying car because that means that the drivers who are idiots will then be in the air. (Disclaimer-I am a pilot)
I don't want technology displacing pilot education and the requirements to become a pilot.
There are a good bit of us here that remember when-
you couldn't buy a phone, you had to rent them.
when Russia was the bad guys. (anybody born in the '90s -huh?) Now everyone has a spycamera.
Pull strings on toys. (Today's See and Says are battery powered, Mrs. Beasley - huh?)
Movies used to have cartoons in front of them
I remember the MGM movies had Tom and Jerry, UA movies had Pink Panther. Now it's only Pixar and commercials.
Couple of cases that are in use today,
Stock image houses that use a mix of OS, keywords are still seperate.
If Extensis Portfolio is used, metadata is only viewable within Portfolio.
Programmers that use a trimix (Win,Mac,Lin) usually rely on comments within the code.
I don't see the point of metadata in these cases and would be a bad thing to only rely on 1 OS to handle.
If MS would write a handler for Mac and Linux then it may have some use but If I can't see meta data from a MS office document authored in Vista on my Mac then I don't want metadata to be used at all for 'meta notes'.
So how compatable are theses metadata tags within multiple operating systems?
If a Vista user tags a jpg with "Family Vacation", will Mac and Linux users be able to view these tags?
AOL's policy now is to just have the SPF record and a reverse DNS. I run a mail server from my house (perfectly legitimate) and I have mail/web servers in 2 major cities. I control my DNS so as soon as I published the SPF records, AOL/Compuserve/Netscape started to receive mail from my servers.
I have web customers with compuserve email addresses where mail was getting bounced from their website form (they didn't want another email address from their domain to worry about) as well as a spouse with friends that have AOL addresses. Once I got the SPF record, it flowed.
They've implemented the Sender Policy Framework which was a real pain in the ass for me as well. All AOL and compuserve addresses were affected by it. Instead of a normal bounce message, they did put in the RFC that was violated so I gotta hand it to them that they did explain why the message was bounced.
If you put in the SPF record in your DNS, AOL will accept your mail.
You can find out more about it here: http://www.openspf.org/
You know, I gotta say that AOL is the best ISP for the computer unsavvy user ever since they've tagged on their anti virus and anti-spyware packages (except for their own crappy software).
It really is amazing how many people don't know email let alone what their POP/SMTP/Username/Passwords are. Those people need AOL.
And might I add that printing is still a mystery to most of the AOL folk.
AOL isn't going anywhere, yet.
You know, we really get tired of MOST of the dupes here and as we have discussed before, sometimes dupes are a good thing because we don't get all the stories because we're not connected all the time.
This is the first I have seen this story posted here although judging by some of the comments, a quick search would display the duplicate story.
I wonder if there should be a notification icon or something to denote dupes though. Just to appease the dupe hating crowd.
The phone was in a protected area where 'priveleged' employees went. Daytime and nighttime managers were different and nighttime was too busy to police the phone. Some of the 'priveleged' employees would let their friends in or the nighttime manager would let just about anybody in. :-)
Part of the fun was watching them try to use the phone and get a totally diferent number or a non-existent number
I worked at a place where there were teenage workers and at a time before _everyone_ had a cell phone. We had the Merlin phone system and I had implemented a dial code if you wanted to dial out.
Well, if I changed the code in the morning, by that night the teens had the new code so in addition to the code, I had remapped the keys so that 1 was 4, 2 was 5 and so forth. There were many combinations I used like 1=7, 2=8, or 1=3, 4=6.
After changing the pattern for a while, some of the teens could dial by tone and they figured out the pattern.
What worked was when I removed the tone for the first digit then kept the weird map for the rest of the digits.
Here, here (or hear, hear ? :-))
If I buy sheet music, should I have to send a nickel to the publisher every time I play it?
Someone - - will hack it.
Someone will be able to get Cap'n Crunch's head to animate as goatse. I just hope they do it after they get the box home and not while it's on the shelf.
That's a damn good point.
I don't want murderers or rapists on my streets, at all. Get em out.
But jailing someone for stealing a digital 'copy' where it doesn't hurt anyone is ridiculous.
So the content creator maybe lost out on a 'lost' sale. Let that content provider SUE for monetary damages if need be.
Now if the person makes digital copies for profit, then I'm for jail time because they hurt commerce and busines in general.
I saw a site that actually used flash to deliver the fonts. It used javascript to feed the flash file from the content. I don't remember the site but it caught my eye because it used Garamond and Gill Sans and I could highlight the text (so it wasn't an image) on the page.
I believe they or some of the major carriers had to enter expensive contracts to 'up' the quality of the food which became cost prohibitive in the late 80's to mid 90's. The cheaper airlines (that ValueJet started after the demise of Eastern, AirTran, Ted, etc...) never had the traditional served food in the first place, they always had the bag snacks which now costs $5 to $7.
If you look at it from a fixed cost standpoint, it's the food that gets the complaints first well before clerk/attendant attitude so food gets cut. That fixed cost would fluctuate with competition.
My point was that it really wan't broken in the first place. Sometimes you got a decent meal, sometimes you didn't. So what. I'm on a mission from Point A to B, not eating prepared meals im crampled quarters. Now we get nothing except transportation.
The same people complain when there's a problem with their flight when they themselves cause it in the first place. (Relative[in-law] story here) You book a flight from a booking agency like Orbitz and not from the airline. It's only $20 cheaper. The flight takes you 6 hours out of your way then you complain that it does that instead of booking it from the airline itself and getting a direct flight.
The deal with airline food is that it was always provided as part of the fare or lagniappe, not an itemized cost to the fare.
The problem started when those people started to complain about the quality of 'free' things and how if they pay $X hundred amount for a fare, good food should come with it and the cost of transportation should be given for free.
Well I'm sory Mr. bitchy cheap complainer passenger (not directed to the parent poster unless you are one of those complainers), that's what first class is for. To expect the same quality food for coach that first class gets is just retarded but your little pea brain just doesn't get it. Did you know that you could actually request a better meal for free if you requested it a day in advance Mr. compainer??? No, you didn't. You're the type that doesn't prepare and expect everybody to wait hand and foot on YOU just because YOU spent $X hundred dollars let alone the rest of the fare paying passengers you selfish twit.
So then complaints about food created a windstorm where most people (like me) didn't really care. You're on a goddamn plane ride getting from point A to point B, not eating at a first class restaurant that provides transportation services. That pressure caused the air transportation industry to react and do something stupid for the long haul. They were forced to have 'better' meals as a cost.
But Mr. Bitch didn't want to pay for it then fuel costs went up. Oh crap. So if someone complains about something (think 'squeaky wheel'), they're [the airline industry] going to oil the squeak. Well they can't get rid of the passenger so how about we get rid of the meals altogether so they don't have something to complain about.
Good going f*tard. Now we all starve.
So now, if you want to eat, you have to f*king pay extra to eat now for alot more crappier choices than before. $7.00 for a crappy cold biscuit, a cookie, and piece of cheese doesn't cut it Mr. complainer where before you could get an omlette, warm danish, , biscuit with jelly AND a cup of fruit - for FREE.
It's ironic that I'm complaining about complainers but I'm a good passenger. I hate bad passengers and cell phones in theatres.
Because those greedy bastards want a nickel EVERY TIME YOU HEAR THE SONG
Not that I really care but I've read that the failure rate is 2% to 5% with the return rate at 1%.
It could be that the return rate is what Microsoft's official statement.
If there is a manufactured shortage of units, it could be that Joe sixpack is waiting for Wal*Mart to restock before returning their overheating Xbox for a newer one.
The news reports that they are out of the console but I haven't looked in the stores to verify.
Who actually uses that convoluted Internet Zone setting in the first place?
I remember seeing it in IE4 thinking that it was a good idea but how damn complicated it is to actualy use. AND, it's not portable so on each Win98 re-install, all your settings had to be rebuilt.
Plus98 was more fun to reinstall and setup than that.
You can bet that the images have a soft watermark though
They wouldn't even have to get the warning.
www.spoofedbank.com that looks like Bank of America can get a certificate on their own and the end user wouldn't even know. How many non-slashdotters never or even know how to read a certificate? They just clicky through.
Of course there would be somewhat of a trail if the cert is signed by a CA and that's the only way they won't get a popup.
Ok, that's done.
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