Full disclosure, I'm listening to Taylor Swift right now. That's right, I just called myself dumb and am admitting to listening to "Trouble" by Taylor Swift.
Please mod parent down and parent's parents should be modded down too for allowing this to happen.
..read the story or most of the posts on here but here's the privacy policy (important parts):
1. WHAT INFORMATION DOES SKYPE COLLECT AND USE? (n) Content of instant messaging communications, voicemails, and video messages (please see section 12);
12. HOW LONG IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA KEPT BY SKYPE?
Skype will retain your information for as long as is necessary to: (1) fulfill any of the Purposes (as defined in article 2 of this Privacy Policy) or (2) comply with applicable legislation, regulatory requests and relevant orders from competent courts.
Retention of Instant Messages, Voicemail Messages, and Video Messages (Skype internet communications software application only)
Your instant messaging (IM), voicemail, and video message content (collectively “messages”) may be stored by Skype (a) to convey and synchronize your messages and (b) to enable you to retrieve the messages and history where possible. Depending on the message type, messages are generally stored by Skype for a maximum of between 30 and 90 days unless otherwise permitted or required by law. This storage facilitates delivery of messages when a user is offline and to help sync messages between user devices. For IM, if you have linked your Skype and Microsoft accounts, you may have the option to choose to store your full IM history for a longer period. In that case, your IMs may be stored in your Outlook.com Messaging folder until you manually delete them. For Video messages, you may also choose to store messages for an extended period if the sender is a Premium Member.
Skype will take appropriate technical and security measures to protect your information. By using this product, you consent to the storage of your IM, voicemail, and video message communications as described above.
There's a couple other spots in the privacy policy that touch on this but this is the gist.
You can also buy a caddy that fits in the optical bay if it takes a standard sata optical drive. My laptop was a barebones that I bought around 2008/2009 and moved components to. I dropped it too many times and killed the optical drive and never replaced it.. thinking of adding a second drive. Newegg sells the caddy/adapter for $20.
Might not be the best solution but you can have a 1TB mechanical drive and a smaller SSD to speed things up.
Speaking of which.. if anybody is interested I can sell my next bowel movement that I'm currently in the process of making while I read the post about this auction for Neil Armstrong's EKG.
I won't even auction it. I'll give you a buy it now price of $10. What a steal! Hurry now, supplies are limited!
I started using Chrome as my main browser a while back and recently switched back to Firefox due to some odd behavior with ad blockers. Browsing would quickly slow down to a crawl until I disabled the ad blocking extension I was using. It didn't matter which ad block extension it was - it had to be disabled for browsing to even work. Perhaps it's just coincidence but I sure as hell won't browse without an ad block extension anymore and since I couldn't find any solutions to this problem (tried several) - goodbye Chrome.
I agree, they also need to take into consideration how much extra carbon is produced to support somebody completely out of shape - hospital equipment, extra care, production of medicine, surgeries. If somebody is riding a bike then one would presume they're probably in better shape than someone who only rides the bus and gets less exercise.
In January of 2011 they were making 1 billion/year profit. Not too shabby. That's just for the Xbox/gaming division. The online division (whatever that includes) was still a money pit at that time but the Xbox has been turning a profit for some time now.
Of course not, did you even read the comment? Or hear of the series Dune by Frank Herbert? And while I'm at it, why in the hell does wikipedia have articles about the TV series, movie, and video game but not the damned books? Epic fail all around! Am I the only one left on this planet that still reads???
Your post about his sig complaining of people modding him down due to global warming bias... or maybe it should be because he copy-pasted other people's posts up to higher threads hoping to gain karma back through some trickery?
The post before this post is clearly copied from one five minutes earlier somewhere else. And this isn't the first one in this thread that he's done that with, there are others further down.
...but what happens when they ask anyways? Is the company or school fined? What form of punishment do they face? I actually read the article which was the side salad equivalent of a story.
Right about now NWA court is in full effect. Judge Dre presiding in the case of NWA versus the TSA. Prosecuting attourneys are MC Ren Ice Cube and Eazy muthafuckin E. Order order order. Ice Cube take the muthafuckin stand. Do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothin but the truth so help your black ass?
Why don't you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say?
Fuck tha TSA Comin straight from the underground, Young nigga got it bad cuz I'm brown, And not the other color so TSA think, They have the authority to probe a minority
Fuck that shit, cuz I ain't tha one, For a punk muthafucka with a badge and a scanner, To be beatin on, and throwin in a cell, We could go toe to toe in the middle of an interrogation room
Fuckin with me cuz I'm a teenager, With a little bit of gold and an iphone, Searchin my body, lookin for the bombs, Thinkin every nigga is a terrorist
You'd rather see me in the pen, Then me and Lorenzo rollin in the Benzo, Beat tha TSA outta shape, And when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape, To tape off the scene of the slaughter, Still can't swallow bread and water
I don't know if they fags or what, Search a nigga down and grabbin his nuts, And on the other hand, without a gun they can't get none, But don't let it be a black and a white one, Cuz they slam ya down to the street top, Black TSA Agent showin out for the white TSA Agent
Ice Cube will swarm On any muthafucka in a TSA uniform Just cuz I'm from the CPT, punk TSA are afraid of me A young nigga on a warpath And when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath Of TSA, dyin in Airports Yo Dre, I got somethin to say
Fuck the TSA (4X)
M. C. Ren, will you please give your testimony to the jury about this fucked up incident.>
Fuck tha TSA and Ren said it with authority because the niggaz on the street is a majority. A gang, is with whoever I'm stepping and the motherfuckin' weapon is kept in a stash box, for the so-called law wishin' Ren was a nigga that they never saw
Lights start flashin behind me But they're scared of a nigga so they mace me to blind me But that shit don't work, I just laugh Because it gives em a hint not to step in my path
To the TSA I'm sayin fuck you punk Readin my rights and shit, it's all junk Pullin out a silly club, so you stand With a fake assed badge and a scanner set up adjacent to you
But turn off the scanner so you can see what's up And we'll go at it punk, I'ma fuck you up
Make ya think I'm a kick your ass But drop your gat, and Ren's gonna blast I'm sneaky as fuck when it comes to crime But I'm a smoke em now, and not next time
Smoke any muthafucka that sweats me Or any assho that threatens me I'm a sniper with a hell of a scope Takin out a TSA Agent or two, they can't cope with me
The muthafuckin villian that's mad With potential to get bad as fuck So I'm a turn it around Put in my clip, yo, and this is the sound Ya, somethin like that, but it all depends on the size of the gat
Takin out a TSA would make my day But a nigga like Ren don't give a fuck to say
Fuck the TSA (4X)
TSA, open now. We have a scanner for Eazy-E's arrest. Get down and put your hands up where I can see em. Just shut the fuck up and get your muthafuckin ass on the floor. [huh?]>
and tell the jury how you feel abou this bullshit.>
I'm tired of the muthafuckin jackin / Sweatin my gang while I'm chillin in the shackin / Shining tha light in my face, and for what / Maybe it's because I kick so much butt
I kick ass, or maybe cuz I blast / On a stupid assed nigga when I'm playin with the trigga / Of any Uzi or an AK / Cuz the TSA always got somethin stupid to say
They put up my picture with silence / Cuz my identity by itself causes violence / The E with the criminal behavior / Yeah, I'm a gansta, but still I got flavor
It's a lot better now, I got into the beta in the latest rollout and since then it's changed a couple times - mostly minor tweaks. Now you level up (wherever) and assign skills to slots as they become available. You can swap skills whenever you want with possibly a short cooldown period after swapping. I didn't notice the cooldown last time I played so that might have changed in the last couple weeks.
I currently own an Iphone 2G unlocked for Tmobile. The latest OS available for the device was 3.1.3 and it was definitely slower that the 2.x releases that were released midway through the original Iphone's lifespan. I've used the Iphone from the original 1.x releases up through 3.x and as each new major revision came out the phone became less snappy and useable and more bogged down with unnecessary features. I didn't really *notice* the new features as I've stopped using my phone for anything but making phone calls and text messaging (not picture messaging because that's not supported out of the box and I'm too cheap to buy an addon program). Opening up the text msg window can take 3-4 seconds on average.
Now, that being said I've also installed a custom IOS rom called Whited00r. I'm not sure if there are other custom roms worthy of attention but this Rom breathed new life into the phone by bringing in features from later IOS versions and making them compatible while also trying to optimize the software to run faster.
http://www.whited00r.com/ There is an IOS 5 beta (really 3.1.3 or 3.1.2 with major hacks/changes) for the Iphone 2G and they also support the Iphone 3G, Ipod Touch, etc..
Anyways, I finally made the plunge and I'm getting the HTC Amaze 4G. It's running the latest major revision but not the latest minor revisions. If I wanted something without custom interfaces (Sense 3.0) I could just switch to Cyanogen mod or something similar which last I checked they have at least one rom running the latest revision and if not 100% working then it's 99.9%.. and the phone was released Oct 12th. On side note: I've had the Google G1 (didn't like the way it felt in my hands) and the HTC Evo 4G (really liked the Sense interface).
All phones will be replaced with the next shiny device whether it's Iphone, Android or what have you and will stop being updated or if updated might not be worth it. Apple has the advantage of only needing to support a small number of devices with absolutely no custom interface difference between carriers/vendors since they're the only vendor - 5 phones, 2 tablets, and 3 or 4 ipod touch devices?. Android is open to all and as such there are hundreds of phones and other devices and no standardization on hardware and the software can be heavily modified which some vendors feel they need to do differentiate themselves - most just meet the minimum specs for that major OS revision. Not every hardware vendor is going to care about the user experience like Apple does sadly but at least updates are still rolling out if not exactly when the major revision hits but usually within a few months for still supported devices.
These two major operating systems take two different approaches and both have their pluses and minuses. It pays to do your research and go into a phone purchase with your eyes open.
...
The missing memory chip only confirms that the Greys were there to teleport the chip to their holographic dimension before the passengers disappeared in the Bermuda triangle, only to be transported to Layer-7 in Dulce....
Slashdot Mirror
Wrong, they're called anchor stores because they are shaped like anchors.
Sounds good to me. And make sure they wear bright red uniforms so their easy to spot. *ducks
*they're
-A.S.S.H.A.T.S. SPELLING & GRAMMAR DIVISION
Full disclosure, I'm listening to Taylor Swift right now. That's right, I just called myself dumb and am admitting to listening to "Trouble" by Taylor Swift.
Please mod parent down and parent's parents should be modded down too for allowing this to happen.
..read the story or most of the posts on here but here's the privacy policy (important parts):
1. WHAT INFORMATION DOES SKYPE COLLECT AND USE?
(n) Content of instant messaging communications, voicemails, and video messages (please see section 12);
12. HOW LONG IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA KEPT BY SKYPE?
Skype will retain your information for as long as is necessary to: (1) fulfill any of the Purposes (as defined in article 2 of this Privacy Policy) or (2) comply with applicable legislation, regulatory requests and relevant orders from competent courts.
Retention of Instant Messages, Voicemail Messages, and Video Messages (Skype internet communications software application only)
Your instant messaging (IM), voicemail, and video message content (collectively “messages”) may be stored by Skype (a) to convey and synchronize your messages and (b) to enable you to retrieve the messages and history where possible. Depending on the message type, messages are generally stored by Skype for a maximum of between 30 and 90 days unless otherwise permitted or required by law. This storage facilitates delivery of messages when a user is offline and to help sync messages between user devices. For IM, if you have linked your Skype and Microsoft accounts, you may have the option to choose to store your full IM history for a longer period. In that case, your IMs may be stored in your Outlook.com Messaging folder until you manually delete them. For Video messages, you may also choose to store messages for an extended period if the sender is a Premium Member.
Skype will take appropriate technical and security measures to protect your information. By using this product, you consent to the storage of your IM, voicemail, and video message communications as described above.
There's a couple other spots in the privacy policy that touch on this but this is the gist.
You can also buy a caddy that fits in the optical bay if it takes a standard sata optical drive. My laptop was a barebones that I bought around 2008/2009 and moved components to. I dropped it too many times and killed the optical drive and never replaced it.. thinking of adding a second drive. Newegg sells the caddy/adapter for $20.
Might not be the best solution but you can have a 1TB mechanical drive and a smaller SSD to speed things up.
Speaking of which.. if anybody is interested I can sell my next bowel movement that I'm currently in the process of making while I read the post about this auction for Neil Armstrong's EKG.
I won't even auction it. I'll give you a buy it now price of $10. What a steal! Hurry now, supplies are limited!
Bombs for some innocent people, chocolate bars for others!
This had me rollin
I started using Chrome as my main browser a while back and recently switched back to Firefox due to some odd behavior with ad blockers. Browsing would quickly slow down to a crawl until I disabled the ad blocking extension I was using. It didn't matter which ad block extension it was - it had to be disabled for browsing to even work. Perhaps it's just coincidence but I sure as hell won't browse without an ad block extension anymore and since I couldn't find any solutions to this problem (tried several) - goodbye Chrome.
I agree, they also need to take into consideration how much extra carbon is produced to support somebody completely out of shape - hospital equipment, extra care, production of medicine, surgeries. If somebody is riding a bike then one would presume they're probably in better shape than someone who only rides the bus and gets less exercise.
Mod child up! Won't someone think of the children?
This is an article from 2011:
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-01-28/tech/30063548_1_xbox-live-money-pit-kinect
In January of 2011 they were making 1 billion/year profit. Not too shabby. That's just for the Xbox/gaming division. The online division (whatever that includes) was still a money pit at that time but the Xbox has been turning a profit for some time now.
some of the virii and hacks available so they can keep there stuff safer , why cause my family all worked for them and i want them to succeed.
Yes, tend to agree to keep it better in the time frame. When my family also worked they can do it better too. ...I'm not sure if I'm trolling.
Is that a serious question?
Of course not, did you even read the comment? Or hear of the series Dune by Frank Herbert? And while I'm at it, why in the hell does wikipedia have articles about the TV series, movie, and video game but not the damned books? Epic fail all around! Am I the only one left on this planet that still reads???
You mean this article?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)
Your post about his sig complaining of people modding him down due to global warming bias... or maybe it should be because he copy-pasted other people's posts up to higher threads hoping to gain karma back through some trickery?
The post before this post is clearly copied from one five minutes earlier somewhere else. And this isn't the first one in this thread that he's done that with, there are others further down.
...but what happens when they ask anyways? Is the company or school fined? What form of punishment do they face? I actually read the article which was the side salad equivalent of a story.
Sorry about the formatting.. too lazy to fix.
Right about now NWA court is in full effect.
Judge Dre presiding in the case of NWA versus the TSA.
Prosecuting attourneys are MC Ren Ice Cube and Eazy muthafuckin E.
Order order order. Ice Cube take the muthafuckin stand.
Do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth
and nothin but the truth so help your black ass?
Why don't you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say?
Fuck tha TSA
Comin straight from the underground, Young nigga got it bad cuz I'm brown, And not the other color so TSA think, They have the authority to probe a minority
Fuck that shit, cuz I ain't tha one, For a punk muthafucka with a badge and a scanner, To be beatin on, and throwin in a cell, We could go toe to toe in the middle of an interrogation room
Fuckin with me cuz I'm a teenager, With a little bit of gold and an iphone, Searchin my body, lookin for the bombs, Thinkin every nigga is a terrorist
You'd rather see me in the pen, Then me and Lorenzo rollin in the Benzo, Beat tha TSA outta shape, And when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape, To tape off the scene of the slaughter, Still can't swallow bread and water
I don't know if they fags or what, Search a nigga down and grabbin his nuts, And on the other hand, without a gun they can't get none, But don't let it be a black and a white one, Cuz they slam ya down to the street top, Black TSA Agent showin out for the white TSA Agent
Ice Cube will swarm
On any muthafucka in a TSA uniform
Just cuz I'm from the CPT, punk TSA are afraid of me
A young nigga on a warpath
And when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath
Of TSA, dyin in Airports
Yo Dre, I got somethin to say
Fuck the TSA (4X)
M. C. Ren, will you please give your testimony to the jury about this fucked up incident.>
Fuck tha TSA and Ren said it with authority
because the niggaz on the street is a majority.
A gang, is with whoever I'm stepping
and the motherfuckin' weapon
is kept in a stash box, for the so-called law
wishin' Ren was a nigga that they never saw
Lights start flashin behind me
But they're scared of a nigga so they mace me to blind me
But that shit don't work, I just laugh
Because it gives em a hint not to step in my path
To the TSA I'm sayin fuck you punk
Readin my rights and shit, it's all junk
Pullin out a silly club, so you stand
With a fake assed badge and a scanner set up adjacent to you
But turn off the scanner so you can see what's up
And we'll go at it punk, I'ma fuck you up
Make ya think I'm a kick your ass
But drop your gat, and Ren's gonna blast
I'm sneaky as fuck when it comes to crime
But I'm a smoke em now, and not next time
Smoke any muthafucka that sweats me
Or any assho that threatens me
I'm a sniper with a hell of a scope
Takin out a TSA Agent or two, they can't cope with me
The muthafuckin villian that's mad
With potential to get bad as fuck
So I'm a turn it around
Put in my clip, yo, and this is the sound
Ya, somethin like that, but it all depends on the size of the gat
Takin out a TSA would make my day
But a nigga like Ren don't give a fuck to say
Fuck the TSA (4X)
TSA, open now. We have a scanner for Eazy-E's arrest.
Get down and put your hands up where I can see em.
Just shut the fuck up and get your muthafuckin ass on the floor.
[huh?]>
and tell the jury how you feel abou this bullshit.>
I'm tired of the muthafuckin jackin / Sweatin my gang while I'm chillin in the shackin / Shining tha light in my face, and for what / Maybe it's because I kick so much butt
I kick ass, or maybe cuz I blast / On a stupid assed nigga when I'm playin with the trigga / Of any Uzi or an AK / Cuz the TSA always got somethin stupid to say
They put up my picture with silence / Cuz my identity by itself causes violence / The E with the criminal behavior / Yeah, I'm a gansta, but still I got flavor
Without a scan
It's just you.
I have an AMD CPU and I got here first!
Nice try, second place.
It's a lot better now, I got into the beta in the latest rollout and since then it's changed a couple times - mostly minor tweaks. Now you level up (wherever) and assign skills to slots as they become available. You can swap skills whenever you want with possibly a short cooldown period after swapping. I didn't notice the cooldown last time I played so that might have changed in the last couple weeks.
It was the codename for the Ipad 3. Not sure how it snuck into the summary...
...hitting earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY6vlTdNNjU
I currently own an Iphone 2G unlocked for Tmobile. The latest OS available for the device was 3.1.3 and it was definitely slower that the 2.x releases that were released midway through the original Iphone's lifespan. I've used the Iphone from the original 1.x releases up through 3.x and as each new major revision came out the phone became less snappy and useable and more bogged down with unnecessary features. I didn't really *notice* the new features as I've stopped using my phone for anything but making phone calls and text messaging (not picture messaging because that's not supported out of the box and I'm too cheap to buy an addon program). Opening up the text msg window can take 3-4 seconds on average.
Now, that being said I've also installed a custom IOS rom called Whited00r. I'm not sure if there are other custom roms worthy of attention but this Rom breathed new life into the phone by bringing in features from later IOS versions and making them compatible while also trying to optimize the software to run faster.
http://www.whited00r.com/ There is an IOS 5 beta (really 3.1.3 or 3.1.2 with major hacks/changes) for the Iphone 2G and they also support the Iphone 3G, Ipod Touch, etc..
Anyways, I finally made the plunge and I'm getting the HTC Amaze 4G. It's running the latest major revision but not the latest minor revisions. If I wanted something without custom interfaces (Sense 3.0) I could just switch to Cyanogen mod or something similar which last I checked they have at least one rom running the latest revision and if not 100% working then it's 99.9%.. and the phone was released Oct 12th.
On side note: I've had the Google G1 (didn't like the way it felt in my hands) and the HTC Evo 4G (really liked the Sense interface).
All phones will be replaced with the next shiny device whether it's Iphone, Android or what have you and will stop being updated or if updated might not be worth it. Apple has the advantage of only needing to support a small number of devices with absolutely no custom interface difference between carriers/vendors since they're the only vendor - 5 phones, 2 tablets, and 3 or 4 ipod touch devices?. Android is open to all and as such there are hundreds of phones and other devices and no standardization on hardware and the software can be heavily modified which some vendors feel they need to do differentiate themselves - most just meet the minimum specs for that major OS revision. Not every hardware vendor is going to care about the user experience like Apple does sadly but at least updates are still rolling out if not exactly when the major revision hits but usually within a few months for still supported devices.
These two major operating systems take two different approaches and both have their pluses and minuses. It pays to do your research and go into a phone purchase with your eyes open.
Who's with me?!
http://www.bettycrocker.com/
... The missing memory chip only confirms that the Greys were there to teleport the chip to their holographic dimension before the passengers disappeared in the Bermuda triangle, only to be transported to Layer-7 in Dulce. ...
Welcome to /., Tom Cruise.