Just reading the summary is misleading.. They gathered the information, but only managed to get names and addresses from one ISP, a total of 71 people who they offered "settlements" to.. Hopefully, just because of the expense and the fact that they would piss off their customers, the other ISP's will continue to protect their customers.. I would love to know the name of the one ISP that caved into these morons.
You have to buy unemployment insurance.. You have to buy workers compensation insurance.. You have to buy Auto insurance.. When you lose your job, your less of a burden on society.. when you get hurt on the job your less of a burden on society.. WHen you get in a wreck your less of a burden on the other party in the wreck.. But Health insurance.. ? When you get sick it's so cheap you should be able to pay for it with change in your couch.. nobody should be forced to have health insurance.
Population = 28,396,000
Unemployment 35 percent
= unemployed 9,938,000
Money Proposed = 6,100,000,000
Avg current wage yearly = $900
= number of jobs you could fund 6,777,777
Divide by 3 years = 2,259,259 jobs a year
A significant improvement in the economy for millions for a few year is far more valuable than the few hundred people that this money would kill.
If socializing means participating in being tormented by others.. well then maybe socializing is bad for you and it's best to avoid it. People who torment others, feed off of reaction.. Ignoring tormentors causes some anger, but starve them of reaction long enough and they become bored and look to somewhere else to get the reactions they crave.
It never ceases to amaze me how much Windows users will endure.. Perhaps they are masochists and enjoy the pain of having their system occasionally rendered useless.. Living a life full of worry that their machine is an accidental click away from hours of removing crap from their system, followed by weeks of wondering whether or not they got all the cancer out.. Perhaps they enjoy the challenge of constantly defending themselves.. Proving that the are SMARTER than the other masochists that get burned.. Keeping your system safe has become just another game, and maybe that is fun.. I don't know.. And then they are paying some company that is supposed to put them in "God Mode" in the game they are playing.. but this protection costs them in money, and slows their protected system down.. often blocking legitimate things that they want to do, so they get an extra level of fun trying to figure out how to get their protection to allow them to use their PC.. And then even with all of this, they still occasionally get burned.. laugh it all off (after the anger and frustration has subsided), reinstall and reboot the game, and beg form more.. "Thank you sir may I have another ?"
Here's a quote from one of the articles referanced.. Child pornography alone generates $3 billion annually and the average age of first Internet exposure to pornography 11 years old. Figures revealed nearly 90 per cent of children aged 8 - 16 who have access to the Internet have viewed pornographic sites while doing their homework.
So... child pornography is children looking at porn ?.. and these kids must have good allowances to purchase 3 billion in porn a year
Depends how you do it.. You only have to pay $2+ if you use a bank or ATM that is not your bank.. You mostly don't have to pay squat to buy things, and you can get cash at grocery stores and many convenience stores with a purchase... Paying the "ATM fee", just shows poor planning, and is easily avoided.. On the other hand, your check isn't going to get you squat at an ATM or gas pump, no matter whose bank it is.. You also have to ignore the sighs, and rolling of eyes of the people in line at the grocery store who think your a moron.. It's also much easier to lose a checkbook, than a wallet.. In reality, checks are only good if you need to mail someone (or a company) money, and they not in a hurry. or to pay rent if your landlord is not set up to take electronic payments.
Yeah, but were they "homeland security laptops" or passengers laptops at the airport ?.. and "lost" is more likely "stole".. If indeed it was government equipment, the number would not be that high.. because first the person it was assigned to would have to repay the government at the inflated price the government bought it for, and second they would be looking at jeopardizing their cushy gub'ment job.
The scenarios you describe are nice.. But it's kind of like tipping.. It's an accepted practice, but not required. There are oh so many people who abuse the niceties of customer service, at restaurants in particular.. Many people call customer service lines in ballistic mode, because they have come to expect something free offered.. These situations should be a pleasant surprise that something extra was done to make someone happy, not am expectation.. Someone "working the system" really isn't going to appreciate it anyway.
And you do not find it suspicious at all that the the person this happened to works for the anti virus company whose software found this ?... If some random person, who happened to have some random anti virus program, of which was supplied by a company he did not work for, discovered this then it would be different.. I have zero trust in the honesty of major anti virus companies, let alone some smaller company that few people have heard of till now.. Thank god he had this great new anti virus program.
Actually, there were already search engines before Google came on the scene. It took a little bit for Google to take off, match, and surpass the others.. Web portals were the rage, and dedicated search boxes in the browser had not been thought of. What initially set Google apart, was it's speed more than it's results. They had a winning combination though.. speed, no ads, and good search results.. and deserved to win their place.. What is sad, is the state of web portals today.. very few are even worth considering, and even less that you can customize to your liking.
Even before the switch to digital, I dropped cable and just used a combo of Internet entertainment and free TV.. although I have used DSL instead of cable for my Internet.. Total monthly bill is less than $50 and I have one tier below the fastest DSL they offer. I could chop off about 15 bucks a month if I removed the landline (which has no long distance) believe me, I have considered removing the landline, as 90 percent of the calls are crap sales people, and upgrading to the next tier of DSL which would cost about 5 bucks, so with a 10 dollar reduction I could have faster DSL and no annoying sales calls.. It's mostly just been my laziness that I haven't done it yet., that and the fact that I have been satisfied with the speed I get, and not jonesing for more DSL speed.. more would be nice, but I just don't see that it will rock my world or anything.
Like most people. I have a cell phone. That influenced my decision not to have long distance on the landline.
The switch to digital OTA has had quite a few quirks, I agree.. Besides the occasional drop of signals, there are issues with sound.. Sometimes you'll get a commercial or program that has partial sound.. for instance a commercial where the music is playing but the "voice over" is not playing.. I think you will also find that at different times of day they don't broadcast with as much power, and that's generally when you get a lot of dropped signals.. but it has been gradually getting better in my area, and isn't quite as annoying as it has been.
Try making a change and making it stick.. I changed banks 5 years ago, and last time I used paypal they tried to charge the old account even though I had changed the account to the new bank right after I switched.. They made me look like an a**hole to the person I ordered from, and started a fraud investigation on me, when it was all there in black and white.. This is why I just can't stand to use them.. I would rather direct charge my card.. I have also used Google checkout a few times, and that was painless, I wouldn't mind seeing that take off more.
That's not deja vu.. deja vu is when something that is happening that you remember as having already happened. Your experiences of predicting the future, do not mean that most peoples "deja vu" are not something else. Although I wouldn't call them seizures.. I am of the opinion that the brain is incredible, and that mixed with numerous life experiences, and subconscious dream experiences, that at times there is a burst of subconscious brain processing speed that assess the moment and give the feeling of something that has already happened to the conscious that is processing the moment slower.
There are some hardware issues involved.. Everything is not as cut and dried as you think. It is almost a certainty that you could install 2.1 on devices that came with 1.5... That doesn't mean that you should.. I have 1.6 on my phone, I don't want 2.1 unless I am sure that it is not going to take up unnecessary space for features that will not work with my hardware.. I also don't want my phone to be slow, trying to do things that newer phones with better hardware do.. There is absolutely nothing wrong with 1.5 and 1.6 OS's... I don't want 2.x just to say I have 2.x... This whole non-issue is for whiners who think it will be the end all if they have the latest and greatest, while sacrificing performance on their phones.. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH 1.5 and 1,6 !!
distributed by an ISP in the US that DIDN'T use the default user/password
I disagree.. the ISP suppled modem and router/modem combo have either a unique modem access code, or require you to create a password upon setting it up. (at least that's the way AT&T does it).. It's when people buy a modem or router themselves (usually to save a buck) that they end up with something that has the easily guessed username & password.
However sometimes improvements are nice.. I work in an environment where I have to run multiple web apps (about 9 on average).. tabbed browsing would be mighty handy, but were stuck with IE6.. sure everything for the most part works, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be better.
Many times I have run into others who DL and burn an ISO, and run into issues like you had.. It often turns out to be the burn.. I check the disks, and sure enough all they have done is burned the ISO onto the disk.. burning an ISO to a disk, is not the same as creating a disk "from" an ISO., the extra MDSUM check may sound like a waste of time, but better than wasting your time trying to install from a bad burn.. any of those PC's that can install Win7 or XP can MOST CERTAINLY install the major Linux distros.. Your issues are more likely burn, or partitioning issues.
It is the merchants responsibility to insure the person using the credit card is legit.. If the person is there in person, then ID check, if the person is ordering online and it goes bad, then the merchant has the information to track down the person they sent the goods to. Why do you think it is the banks responsibility to take the loss ?.. the bank didn't take the order or insure that it was the correct person.. If you want to make the bank responsible, then you would have to put them in the middle of every transaction BEFORE goods are exchanged.. I don't think many people would like it.
Actually no.. sometimes if I am involved in something, I will forget to eat.. not a conscious decision, just an oversight. It's really about as important to me, as putting gas in the car.. I do not think of overweight people as bad people.. I can make an observation though.. In poor countries where food is scarce, there are not overweight people whose metabolism supports the metabolism theory.. One thing about the US that is different, and can cause people to be overweight even when eating little, is sugar.. It's in everything, and causing diabetes like nobodies business.. I also knew someone who was taking Lithium for depression, and it didn't matter how little she ate, although a lot of the weight gain in that situation is water.
I disagree.. Most overweight people are that way, because food is a priority to them. They diet, but it seldom works because food is still always at the back of their mind. When eating becomes less of a priority, and a skipped meal doesn't even register as a major event, then they will have reprogrammed their brain. I am all over the place with eating.. generally it's 2 meals a day, sometimes 3, sometimes 1.. the difference is, that for me everyone of those days is the same.. there is no suffering or agonizing that I missed something. I don't eat with the thought, oh my god this is going to be great.. eating is just something that I have to do now and then. That doesn't mean that I don't enjoy some foods better than others or not enjoy others, but I don't sit around and plan my next meal.. I am a fit weight, and I don't work at it.. It's a brain, and habits thing.
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Just reading the summary is misleading.. They gathered the information, but only managed to get names and addresses from one ISP, a total of 71 people who they offered "settlements" to.. Hopefully, just because of the expense and the fact that they would piss off their customers, the other ISP's will continue to protect their customers.. I would love to know the name of the one ISP that caved into these morons.
You have to buy unemployment insurance.. You have to buy workers compensation insurance.. You have to buy Auto insurance.. When you lose your job, your less of a burden on society.. when you get hurt on the job your less of a burden on society.. WHen you get in a wreck your less of a burden on the other party in the wreck.. But Health insurance .. ? When you get sick it's so cheap you should be able to pay for it with change in your couch.. nobody should be forced to have health insurance.
Population = 28,396,000
Unemployment 35 percent
= unemployed 9,938,000
Money Proposed = 6,100,000,000
Avg current wage yearly = $900
= number of jobs you could fund 6,777,777
Divide by 3 years = 2,259,259 jobs a year
A significant improvement in the economy for millions for a few year is far more valuable than the few hundred people that this money would kill.
If socializing means participating in being tormented by others.. well then maybe socializing is bad for you and it's best to avoid it. People who torment others, feed off of reaction.. Ignoring tormentors causes some anger, but starve them of reaction long enough and they become bored and look to somewhere else to get the reactions they crave.
It never ceases to amaze me how much Windows users will endure.. Perhaps they are masochists and enjoy the pain of having their system occasionally rendered useless.. Living a life full of worry that their machine is an accidental click away from hours of removing crap from their system, followed by weeks of wondering whether or not they got all the cancer out.. Perhaps they enjoy the challenge of constantly defending themselves.. Proving that the are SMARTER than the other masochists that get burned.. Keeping your system safe has become just another game, and maybe that is fun.. I don't know.. And then they are paying some company that is supposed to put them in "God Mode" in the game they are playing.. but this protection costs them in money, and slows their protected system down.. often blocking legitimate things that they want to do, so they get an extra level of fun trying to figure out how to get their protection to allow them to use their PC.. And then even with all of this, they still occasionally get burned.. laugh it all off (after the anger and frustration has subsided), reinstall and reboot the game, and beg form more.. "Thank you sir may I have another ?"
Here's a quote from one of the articles referanced..
Child pornography alone generates $3 billion annually and the average age of first Internet exposure to pornography 11 years old. Figures revealed nearly 90 per cent of children aged 8 - 16 who have access to the Internet have viewed pornographic sites while doing their homework.
So... child pornography is children looking at porn ?.. and these kids must have good allowances to purchase 3 billion in porn a year
Depends how you do it.. You only have to pay $2+ if you use a bank or ATM that is not your bank.. You mostly don't have to pay squat to buy things, and you can get cash at grocery stores and many convenience stores with a purchase... Paying the "ATM fee", just shows poor planning, and is easily avoided.. On the other hand, your check isn't going to get you squat at an ATM or gas pump, no matter whose bank it is.. You also have to ignore the sighs, and rolling of eyes of the people in line at the grocery store who think your a moron.. It's also much easier to lose a checkbook, than a wallet.. In reality, checks are only good if you need to mail someone (or a company) money, and they not in a hurry. or to pay rent if your landlord is not set up to take electronic payments.
Yeah, but were they "homeland security laptops" or passengers laptops at the airport ?.. and "lost" is more likely "stole".. If indeed it was government equipment, the number would not be that high.. because first the person it was assigned to would have to repay the government at the inflated price the government bought it for, and second they would be looking at jeopardizing their cushy gub'ment job.
The scenarios you describe are nice.. But it's kind of like tipping.. It's an accepted practice, but not required. There are oh so many people who abuse the niceties of customer service, at restaurants in particular.. Many people call customer service lines in ballistic mode, because they have come to expect something free offered.. These situations should be a pleasant surprise that something extra was done to make someone happy, not am expectation.. Someone "working the system" really isn't going to appreciate it anyway.
And you do not find it suspicious at all that the the person this happened to works for the anti virus company whose software found this ?... If some random person, who happened to have some random anti virus program, of which was supplied by a company he did not work for, discovered this then it would be different.. I have zero trust in the honesty of major anti virus companies, let alone some smaller company that few people have heard of till now.. Thank god he had this great new anti virus program.
Maybe it's a file association problem ?
Actually, there were already search engines before Google came on the scene. It took a little bit for Google to take off, match, and surpass the others.. Web portals were the rage, and dedicated search boxes in the browser had not been thought of. What initially set Google apart, was it's speed more than it's results. They had a winning combination though.. speed, no ads, and good search results.. and deserved to win their place.. What is sad, is the state of web portals today.. very few are even worth considering, and even less that you can customize to your liking.
I must be defective. Even with his mistake, I got the gist of what he was trying to say... Life may make more sense to you at this web site.. http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=ab-grammar
Even before the switch to digital, I dropped cable and just used a combo of Internet entertainment and free TV.. although I have used DSL instead of cable for my Internet.. Total monthly bill is less than $50 and I have one tier below the fastest DSL they offer. I could chop off about 15 bucks a month if I removed the landline (which has no long distance) believe me, I have considered removing the landline, as 90 percent of the calls are crap sales people, and upgrading to the next tier of DSL which would cost about 5 bucks, so with a 10 dollar reduction I could have faster DSL and no annoying sales calls.. It's mostly just been my laziness that I haven't done it yet., that and the fact that I have been satisfied with the speed I get, and not jonesing for more DSL speed.. more would be nice, but I just don't see that it will rock my world or anything. Like most people. I have a cell phone. That influenced my decision not to have long distance on the landline.
The switch to digital OTA has had quite a few quirks, I agree.. Besides the occasional drop of signals, there are issues with sound.. Sometimes you'll get a commercial or program that has partial sound.. for instance a commercial where the music is playing but the "voice over" is not playing.. I think you will also find that at different times of day they don't broadcast with as much power, and that's generally when you get a lot of dropped signals.. but it has been gradually getting better in my area, and isn't quite as annoying as it has been.
Try making a change and making it stick.. I changed banks 5 years ago, and last time I used paypal they tried to charge the old account even though I had changed the account to the new bank right after I switched.. They made me look like an a**hole to the person I ordered from, and started a fraud investigation on me, when it was all there in black and white.. This is why I just can't stand to use them.. I would rather direct charge my card.. I have also used Google checkout a few times, and that was painless, I wouldn't mind seeing that take off more.
Well.. just as I said.. http://androidandme.com/2010/02/news/all-u-s-android-phones-to-receive-android-2-1-but-some-will-require-a-wipe/ ...But that doesn't mean it should be done... I hope they tweak it for my phone properly, or I'll just pass.
That's not deja vu.. deja vu is when something that is happening that you remember as having already happened. Your experiences of predicting the future, do not mean that most peoples "deja vu" are not something else. Although I wouldn't call them seizures.. I am of the opinion that the brain is incredible, and that mixed with numerous life experiences, and subconscious dream experiences, that at times there is a burst of subconscious brain processing speed that assess the moment and give the feeling of something that has already happened to the conscious that is processing the moment slower.
There are some hardware issues involved.. Everything is not as cut and dried as you think. It is almost a certainty that you could install 2.1 on devices that came with 1.5 ... That doesn't mean that you should.. I have 1.6 on my phone, I don't want 2.1 unless I am sure that it is not going to take up unnecessary space for features that will not work with my hardware.. I also don't want my phone to be slow, trying to do things that newer phones with better hardware do.. There is absolutely nothing wrong with 1.5 and 1.6 OS's ... I don't want 2.x just to say I have 2.x ... This whole non-issue is for whiners who think it will be the end all if they have the latest and greatest, while sacrificing performance on their phones.. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH 1.5 and 1,6 !!
distributed by an ISP in the US that DIDN'T use the default user/password
I disagree.. the ISP suppled modem and router/modem combo have either a unique modem access code, or require you to create a password upon setting it up. (at least that's the way AT&T does it).. It's when people buy a modem or router themselves (usually to save a buck) that they end up with something that has the easily guessed username & password.
However sometimes improvements are nice.. I work in an environment where I have to run multiple web apps (about 9 on average).. tabbed browsing would be mighty handy, but were stuck with IE6.. sure everything for the most part works, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be better.
Many times I have run into others who DL and burn an ISO, and run into issues like you had.. It often turns out to be the burn.. I check the disks, and sure enough all they have done is burned the ISO onto the disk.. burning an ISO to a disk, is not the same as creating a disk "from" an ISO., the extra MDSUM check may sound like a waste of time, but better than wasting your time trying to install from a bad burn.. any of those PC's that can install Win7 or XP can MOST CERTAINLY install the major Linux distros.. Your issues are more likely burn, or partitioning issues.
No, disuede is my suede.. datsuede is yours.
It is the merchants responsibility to insure the person using the credit card is legit.. If the person is there in person, then ID check, if the person is ordering online and it goes bad, then the merchant has the information to track down the person they sent the goods to. Why do you think it is the banks responsibility to take the loss ? .. the bank didn't take the order or insure that it was the correct person.. If you want to make the bank responsible, then you would have to put them in the middle of every transaction BEFORE goods are exchanged.. I don't think many people would like it.
Actually no.. sometimes if I am involved in something, I will forget to eat.. not a conscious decision, just an oversight. It's really about as important to me, as putting gas in the car.. I do not think of overweight people as bad people.. I can make an observation though.. In poor countries where food is scarce, there are not overweight people whose metabolism supports the metabolism theory.. One thing about the US that is different, and can cause people to be overweight even when eating little, is sugar.. It's in everything, and causing diabetes like nobodies business.. I also knew someone who was taking Lithium for depression, and it didn't matter how little she ate, although a lot of the weight gain in that situation is water.
I disagree.. Most overweight people are that way, because food is a priority to them. They diet, but it seldom works because food is still always at the back of their mind. When eating becomes less of a priority, and a skipped meal doesn't even register as a major event, then they will have reprogrammed their brain. I am all over the place with eating.. generally it's 2 meals a day, sometimes 3, sometimes 1.. the difference is, that for me everyone of those days is the same.. there is no suffering or agonizing that I missed something. I don't eat with the thought, oh my god this is going to be great.. eating is just something that I have to do now and then. That doesn't mean that I don't enjoy some foods better than others or not enjoy others, but I don't sit around and plan my next meal.. I am a fit weight, and I don't work at it.. It's a brain, and habits thing.