I know that, but that wasn't my point. My point was that the sentence he received wasn't for spamming per se; it was for fraud that just happened to be committed thru spam. Not the same thing.
It doesn't apply a "fairly harsh penalty for spamming"; it applies a fairly harsh penalty for fraud. Had he been selling a legitimate product, his prison sentence would have been much shorter if he even received one at all.
What they're hoping for is that you'll buy the item at the in-store price, then not bother to go thru all the yadda-yadda that you have to go thru and wait six to eight weeks to get the rebate. A rebate is a way that a retailer can make an item look as though it costs less than it actually does; they don't actually want to sell you the item at the lower price. If they did, they would, as you say, simply mark the price down.
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The picture quality in FHM and Maxim for boobs is better than it was in Duke Nukem 3D, but in Duke Nukem Forever, the boobs are much more realistic.;-)
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I remember that. *grin*
Or how about the scenes in the strip joints? You could go up to the strippers and tip them, and they'd show you their boobs.
Per the comment of another user in this story, I tried hovering over the white space next to each link in Safari, and the status bar showed a link to Microsoft. Clicking the white space takes me to Microsoft. IE doesn't show any link at all there, but it does strange things with most of the rest of the text -- it underlines most of the page in blue, implying that it's a link, and it even shows it as a link in the status bar, but if you click on any part of the underlined text, the underlining disappears -- but only for a few words. The rest of the underlining stays.
I tried this with both Safari and IE under OS X. In Safari, when I hovered over each link, the status bar showed both links as Microsoft. When I clicked the links, I went to Google, and the address bar showed Google.
In IE, when I hovered over the links, it showed the links as Google and behaved the same as with Safari when I clicked on them.
[Returning from commercial break to see Imperial Star Destroyer chasing Millennium Falcon with large number painted on the side]
Right, now where were we? Well, when we left off, Beau and Luke had got theirself into a whole heap o' trouble!
My reasons were legitimate, and it was all done thru proper legal channels (in fact, I still have all the legal documents and so forth). My point was that, even in spite of all that, the government said they were going to have to investigate my name change extensively before deciding on a clearance, even though everything else in my background check was fine.
That's a good idea -- if you can get a clearance. Getting a security clearance can be difficult for various reasons. For one thing, you have to find a company that will sponsor you (either that, or go to work for the government). For another, you have to meet the requirements for a clearance, and they've tightened those up since 9/11 (I should know -- when I applied for a clearance, the government told me they'd have to investigate me for well over a year, just because I had changed my name). I even know of one guy who's been cleared for a while but is now in jeopardy of losing his clearance because his wife is French.
But yes -- if you can get the clearance, that's definitely an excellent way to give yourself a good dose of career security.
I know I'm not exactly the first person to think of this, but I'm trying to get out of the IT industry. In the long run, I just don't see any way I can be competitive with offshoring. Granted, there are certain jobs that can't be outsourced that way, but it would be too much work to try to get one of the few remaining positions -- increasing competition for fewer jobs.
I don't much like agreeing with him, but I think Bush was right in the debate the other night when he said that the 21st century economy is going to necessitate job and career changes -- not just in IT but in other areas as well. Even down to more mundane things like checkout clerks at grocery stores (which isn't much of a career, admittedly, but you know what I mean). Those are on their way out, being steadily replaced by automated checkout machines, and those who currently still work as checkout clerks had better start thinking about what they're going to do next because they're either going to leave the job of their own accord, or they're going to get laid off when those checkout machines become commonplace.
I use Carbon Copy Cloner on my PowerBook to mirror my entire hard drive to an external 60 GB USB 2.0 hard drive. CCC is supposed to make external drives bootable as well, but I've had trouble getting it to do that.
It's not the ideal solution, since it obviously means that if any data on my PowerBook's HD gets corrupted, I'll just be cloning over that corruption. I'm probably going to start doing separate backups to CD-R and/or CD-RW to ensure additional data integrity. But I do like the simplicity of having a complete mirror of my PowerBook's HD on another HD if the drive in my PowerBook should ever fail -- restoration will be that much easier.
Even the round earth theory had considerable opposition.
I hate to sound overly nitpicky, but that should be "has", not "had". To this very day, there are still people who insist that the earth is flat -- and yes, they're absolutely serious.
Thank you all for the enlightenment... I was under the impression that these windmills were regularly chopping large numbers of birds to bits and that the problem was insurmountable. Glad to hear that neither of those things is the case.
I don't know much about this field, but is there any way to make windmills safer for birds? Perhaps have some kind of a large wire "cage" around the entire turbine, much like most household fans do to keep things away from the blades?
Following up: the last time I got mod points was August 23rd, and this morning I got them again. So I guess it is roughly once a week or so for me. I hope you can figure out how to get them more often... I don't know about you, but I find it quite satisfying to mod down a post about the GNAA as a "troll".:-)
I don't know what the algorithm is, but yes, I get mod points pretty frequently -- I got them last night, and the last time before that was probably about a week or ten days ago. (In thinking about it again, I realized my original estimate of "twice a week" was on the high side.)
If you're interested in getting mod points more frequently, all I can recommend is metamodding often (I do it about twice a day) and reading the site a lot.
Does it really matter? I visit Slashdot from the same IP address every single time (in fact, I don't think I've ever visited it from any IP other than this one). I post pretty rarely, as a look at my profile will show. Nevertheless, I get mod points, on average, about once or twice a week.
This kind of privacy intrusion has been going on for a lot longer than most of us think or realize. In my home state of Hawaii, for instance, you are required to be fingerprinted just to get a state ID card, and I'd hazard a guess that that's not the only state that does that, either. You could dodge this particular fingerprint problem by not visiting the Statue of Liberty, but the ID card requirement in Hawaii would be a lot harder to get around.
Pocket PC Tools quoted a short passage (which comes under "Fair Use") and gave full credit. They were also giving free publicity to Ziff Davis and guiding traffic to their web site. Threatening legal action? Ziff Davis should be saying "thank you" -- or, at the absolute worst, "Thank you, but please ask us first in the future."
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I know that, but that wasn't my point. My point was that the sentence he received wasn't for spamming per se; it was for fraud that just happened to be committed thru spam. Not the same thing.
It doesn't apply a "fairly harsh penalty for spamming"; it applies a fairly harsh penalty for fraud. Had he been selling a legitimate product, his prison sentence would have been much shorter if he even received one at all.
What they're hoping for is that you'll buy the item at the in-store price, then not bother to go thru all the yadda-yadda that you have to go thru and wait six to eight weeks to get the rebate. A rebate is a way that a retailer can make an item look as though it costs less than it actually does; they don't actually want to sell you the item at the lower price. If they did, they would, as you say, simply mark the price down.
Actually, it was my GF pulling a funny (she told me about it afterward).
"Informative"...? You're kidding, right?
The picture quality in FHM and Maxim for boobs is better than it was in Duke Nukem 3D, but in Duke Nukem Forever, the boobs are much more realistic. ;-)
I remember that. *grin*
Or how about the scenes in the strip joints? You could go up to the strippers and tip them, and they'd show you their boobs.
Per the comment of another user in this story, I tried hovering over the white space next to each link in Safari, and the status bar showed a link to Microsoft. Clicking the white space takes me to Microsoft. IE doesn't show any link at all there, but it does strange things with most of the rest of the text -- it underlines most of the page in blue, implying that it's a link, and it even shows it as a link in the status bar, but if you click on any part of the underlined text, the underlining disappears -- but only for a few words. The rest of the underlining stays.
I tried this with both Safari and IE under OS X. In Safari, when I hovered over each link, the status bar showed both links as Microsoft. When I clicked the links, I went to Google, and the address bar showed Google.
In IE, when I hovered over the links, it showed the links as Google and behaved the same as with Safari when I clicked on them.
Very, very weird...
[Returning from commercial break to see Imperial Star Destroyer chasing Millennium Falcon with large number painted on the side] Right, now where were we? Well, when we left off, Beau and Luke had got theirself into a whole heap o' trouble!
Apple has a not very well kept secret that it keeps OSX compiled and up to date for x86.
I didn't know that. Where has this been reported?
My reasons were legitimate, and it was all done thru proper legal channels (in fact, I still have all the legal documents and so forth). My point was that, even in spite of all that, the government said they were going to have to investigate my name change extensively before deciding on a clearance, even though everything else in my background check was fine.
That's a good idea -- if you can get a clearance. Getting a security clearance can be difficult for various reasons. For one thing, you have to find a company that will sponsor you (either that, or go to work for the government). For another, you have to meet the requirements for a clearance, and they've tightened those up since 9/11 (I should know -- when I applied for a clearance, the government told me they'd have to investigate me for well over a year, just because I had changed my name). I even know of one guy who's been cleared for a while but is now in jeopardy of losing his clearance because his wife is French.
But yes -- if you can get the clearance, that's definitely an excellent way to give yourself a good dose of career security.
I know I'm not exactly the first person to think of this, but I'm trying to get out of the IT industry. In the long run, I just don't see any way I can be competitive with offshoring. Granted, there are certain jobs that can't be outsourced that way, but it would be too much work to try to get one of the few remaining positions -- increasing competition for fewer jobs.
I don't much like agreeing with him, but I think Bush was right in the debate the other night when he said that the 21st century economy is going to necessitate job and career changes -- not just in IT but in other areas as well. Even down to more mundane things like checkout clerks at grocery stores (which isn't much of a career, admittedly, but you know what I mean). Those are on their way out, being steadily replaced by automated checkout machines, and those who currently still work as checkout clerks had better start thinking about what they're going to do next because they're either going to leave the job of their own accord, or they're going to get laid off when those checkout machines become commonplace.
I use Carbon Copy Cloner on my PowerBook to mirror my entire hard drive to an external 60 GB USB 2.0 hard drive. CCC is supposed to make external drives bootable as well, but I've had trouble getting it to do that.
It's not the ideal solution, since it obviously means that if any data on my PowerBook's HD gets corrupted, I'll just be cloning over that corruption. I'm probably going to start doing separate backups to CD-R and/or CD-RW to ensure additional data integrity. But I do like the simplicity of having a complete mirror of my PowerBook's HD on another HD if the drive in my PowerBook should ever fail -- restoration will be that much easier.
Even the round earth theory had considerable opposition.
I hate to sound overly nitpicky, but that should be "has", not "had". To this very day, there are still people who insist that the earth is flat -- and yes, they're absolutely serious.
Thank you all for the enlightenment... I was under the impression that these windmills were regularly chopping large numbers of birds to bits and that the problem was insurmountable. Glad to hear that neither of those things is the case.
I don't know much about this field, but is there any way to make windmills safer for birds? Perhaps have some kind of a large wire "cage" around the entire turbine, much like most household fans do to keep things away from the blades?
This type of phone call usually (not always) goes to your legiscritter's office in Washington, DC, so East Coast time, most likely.
The won't let her use my thumb drive, "it might contain viruses" or some such nonsense..
Yep, that's pretty worthless, all right. Has anyone explained to them that floppies are just as capable of having viruses as thumb drives are? Jeez.
Following up: the last time I got mod points was August 23rd, and this morning I got them again. So I guess it is roughly once a week or so for me. I hope you can figure out how to get them more often... I don't know about you, but I find it quite satisfying to mod down a post about the GNAA as a "troll". :-)
I don't know what the algorithm is, but yes, I get mod points pretty frequently -- I got them last night, and the last time before that was probably about a week or ten days ago. (In thinking about it again, I realized my original estimate of "twice a week" was on the high side.) If you're interested in getting mod points more frequently, all I can recommend is metamodding often (I do it about twice a day) and reading the site a lot.
Does it really matter? I visit Slashdot from the same IP address every single time (in fact, I don't think I've ever visited it from any IP other than this one). I post pretty rarely, as a look at my profile will show. Nevertheless, I get mod points, on average, about once or twice a week.
This kind of privacy intrusion has been going on for a lot longer than most of us think or realize. In my home state of Hawaii, for instance, you are required to be fingerprinted just to get a state ID card, and I'd hazard a guess that that's not the only state that does that, either. You could dodge this particular fingerprint problem by not visiting the Statue of Liberty, but the ID card requirement in Hawaii would be a lot harder to get around.
Pocket PC Tools quoted a short passage (which comes under "Fair Use") and gave full credit. They were also giving free publicity to Ziff Davis and guiding traffic to their web site. Threatening legal action? Ziff Davis should be saying "thank you" -- or, at the absolute worst, "Thank you, but please ask us first in the future."