The Commission has now posted nine teaser sites on pyramid schemes, Internet business opportunities, scholarship scams, deceptive vacation advertisements, deceptive travel agent opportunities, false weight loss claims, fraudulent vending opportunities and credit repair schemes.
Does that mean some of my spam comes from the FTC and the SEC?
I find it disturbing that Yahoo includes these press releases in its biz.yahoo.com site. Until now, I assumed that if Yahoo was a reliable news source. I'm aware that press releases usually have heavy bias, but I would expect Yahoo to verify that the company exists and that claims of facts such as "SEC 'Pre-Approves' IPO" were actually true.
If Yahoo wants to protect its reputation while running unverified press releases, it should put text near the top of each PRNewswire article saying "PRNewswire does not run background checks on companies, nor does it check claims of facts for validity."
EXEMPTION.--Section 110(7) of title 17, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by striking "(7)" and inserting "(7)(A)"
(2) by striking "by a vending establishment" and inserting "or of a sound recording by digital audio transmission, by or in a physical vending establishment"...
How is a congressman supposed to review this? Do you expect them to look up the context around every change? Legislators have many patches (excuse me, bills) to review, so you should help them out by using a --context or --unified switch in your diff command.
If your bill is unreadable, the reviewer is less likely to catch bugs, accidental loopholes, or unintentional stray changes from another bill you were working on in the same tree. Of course, if the bill contains "accidental" loopholes and "unintentional" stray changes (note scare quotes), I suppose it makes sense to try obfuscate your bill, but don't whine when the reviewer says "please attach a unified diff".
Of course a patent creates a monopoly. It's just that most patents don't have a corresponding law saying "all foos must implement the technology described in this patent".
Sure, the government can grant monopolies, eg on public infrastructure. But would you grant a monopoly to a company known to repeatedly abuse its monopoly positions?
I think the main thing to keep in mind is that PayPal is not a bank, and not FDIC insured.
FWIW, the new version of Yahoo! PayDirectis FDIC insured. Its fees are similar to the current PayPal fees. I haven't used PayDirect since it switched banks several weeks ago, but I remember that it was possible to contact Yahoo about the service if you were willing to pay for a long-distance phone call. (PayDirect is also the only service that I was able to get a tip bookmarklet to work with, so I'm biased.)
Hello fellow HMC CS major. I'm in South 364. My current computer game addiction is Freecell:)
How do you know that the game players were addicted while the TV watchers were not?
Automatic two-wheeled unicycle
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The following was a post by Ben FrantzDale to a Mudd mailing list:
IT (aka Ginger, aka Segway) appears to be an automatic two-wheeled
unicycle, in that the fore and aft stability is attained through dynamic
stabilization. Having used a unicycle around Boston, Mudd and RPI, I
definately think it's a good mode of short to medium distance
transportation (i.e., a range of a mile or so).
Carrying out acts of war without declaring war(declaring war against a tactic doesn't count, war is by definition a conflict between 2 nations, not some open ended crusade).
What was he supposed to do? Don't you remember the onion headline, "U.S. Urges Bin Laden To Form Nation It Can Attack"?
Why is it bad netiquitte to use wget on sites that use robots.txt? Robots.txt is aimed at search engines and is primarily used to keep search engines from downloading dynamic data or an infinite number of pages. I only use wget to avoid downloading a large number of links manually, and I'm always careful to make sure I only download what I'm trying to download.
I tried a few more sites, and it worked on one of them.
A slashdot comment form: Ctrl+Z works.
A bugzilla bug comment form: Ctrl+Z doesn't work. The form also loses focus, but putting focus back in the form doesn't make Ctrl+Z work.
My start page (Google search form): Ctrl+Z doesn't work.
Does that mean the Mozilla team doesn't have to fix bug 2586, "Print Preview animates GIFs"? Here's the original bug report:
In Print Preview, animated GIFs are still animated. I would love to say
that it is not a bug, but unless the printing code can then back the
preview up by animating the printed copy, I suggest the Print Preview
should show a static image.
This also applies to applets, Javascript, "hover" and "active" pseudo
classes, and so on.
If you write assembly programs for the TI-83 graphing calculator, you're writing in Z80 assembly. I don't know if they actually use a Z80 chip, or if they're using a clone or a faster-but-similar chip.
I gave Google $50 to advertise my site on some uncommon keywords and keyword combinations. I was surprised when I learned which keywords and which ads were doing best, but I was able to drop the keywords that were getting the lowest clickthrough rates. If I had been trying to advertise a revenue-generating site, I think that would have been a well-spent $50 for just the knowledge of the clickthrough rates for various keywords and various text ads. Since my site doesn't generate revenue, it was just a fun way to give my favorite search engine some money and learn a little about how advertising works.
I looked at the site for two minutes before I realized that the site was savannah. I thought it was source code hosted at sourceforge because they copied all of sourceforge graphics. I was wondering why they didn't provide a free-as-in-hosting version.
Detailed calculations of the dynamics of tumbling toast confirmed my suspicions, and revealed something else: that the presence of butter was more or less irrelevant. Neither its weight nor aerodynamic properties had much effect on how toast landed. The crucial factor is purely height - and toast sliding off a plate spins so slowly that only if it falls from heights above 8ft does it have much hope of regularly landing butter-up.
Does that mean the Zooks has it right after all? And to think we, the Yooks, almost bombed them into oblivion for eating their toast butter-side down.
I don't watch TV often, but a few weeks ago I heard that the Discovery channel would have a show about the Mars Society's efforts on Devon Island this Wednesday. Over the weekend, I tried to figure out whether my dorm gets the Discovery channel. Very few students here watch TV regularly, so they weren't able to tell me whether we get the channel. After a student in another dorm pointed out that the Discovery channel always keeps their logo on the screen, I was quickly able to determine that our cable service does not carry the channel. Once I gave up on cable, I asked around to find a satellite hookup, and found one after about 10 minutes.
(The satellite system would show you the name of each channel as you flipped channels, making the channel logos less important.)
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The Commission has now posted nine teaser sites on pyramid schemes, Internet business opportunities, scholarship scams, deceptive vacation advertisements, deceptive travel agent opportunities, false weight loss claims, fraudulent vending opportunities and credit repair schemes.
Does that mean some of my spam comes from the FTC and the SEC?
I find it disturbing that Yahoo includes these press releases in its biz.yahoo.com site. Until now, I assumed that if Yahoo was a reliable news source. I'm aware that press releases usually have heavy bias, but I would expect Yahoo to verify that the company exists and that claims of facts such as "SEC 'Pre-Approves' IPO" were actually true.
If Yahoo wants to protect its reputation while running unverified press releases, it should put text near the top of each PRNewswire article saying "PRNewswire does not run background checks on companies, nor does it check claims of facts for validity."
Cuz remember programmers: in the real world you are fired if you consult with a co-worker ;)
That reminds me of something that happened during a CS lecture last year...
Prof: All of my tests are open-book, because the real world is open-book.
Jesse: Can I use Google during a test?
Prof: No.
you should read your diffs before posting them.
EXEMPTION.--Section 110(7) of title 17, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by striking "(7)" and inserting "(7)(A)"
(2) by striking "by a vending establishment" and inserting "or of a sound recording by digital audio transmission, by or in a physical vending establishment"...
How is a congressman supposed to review this? Do you expect them to look up the context around every change? Legislators have many patches (excuse me, bills) to review, so you should help them out by using a --context or --unified switch in your diff command.
If your bill is unreadable, the reviewer is less likely to catch bugs, accidental loopholes, or unintentional stray changes from another bill you were working on in the same tree. Of course, if the bill contains "accidental" loopholes and "unintentional" stray changes (note scare quotes), I suppose it makes sense to try obfuscate your bill, but don't whine when the reviewer says "please attach a unified diff".
Of course a patent creates a monopoly. It's just that most patents don't have a corresponding law saying "all foos must implement the technology described in this patent".
Sure, the government can grant monopolies, eg on public infrastructure. But would you grant a monopoly to a company known to repeatedly abuse its monopoly positions?
I think the main thing to keep in mind is that PayPal is not a bank, and not FDIC insured.
FWIW, the new version of Yahoo! PayDirect is FDIC insured. Its fees are similar to the current PayPal fees. I haven't used PayDirect since it switched banks several weeks ago, but I remember that it was possible to contact Yahoo about the service if you were willing to pay for a long-distance phone call. (PayDirect is also the only service that I was able to get a tip bookmarklet to work with, so I'm biased.)
extremely low-res women
Look no further than the winner of this year's 5k contest: PixxxelChix. (The 5k contest is "make something cool using five kilobytes of web space".)
You say efnet nicks aren't owned, yet you put your efnet nick in your sig?
freecell sucks, play snoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
Where can I get some, err, it?
Hello fellow HMC CS major. I'm in South 364. My current computer game addiction is Freecell :)
How do you know that the game players were addicted while the TV watchers were not?
The following was a post by Ben FrantzDale to a Mudd mailing list:
IT (aka Ginger, aka Segway) appears to be an automatic two-wheeled
unicycle, in that the fore and aft stability is attained through dynamic
stabilization. Having used a unicycle around Boston, Mudd and RPI, I
definately think it's a good mode of short to medium distance
transportation (i.e., a range of a mile or so).
Carrying out acts of war without declaring war(declaring war against a tactic doesn't count, war is by definition a conflict between 2 nations, not some open ended crusade).
What was he supposed to do? Don't you remember the onion headline, "U.S. Urges Bin Laden To Form Nation It Can Attack"?
The winning car, Nuna, was built by the Alpha Centauri team
They can't be from centauri. Everyone knows the game ends the first time humans reach it!
Why is it bad netiquitte to use wget on sites that use robots.txt? Robots.txt is aimed at search engines and is primarily used to keep search engines from downloading dynamic data or an infinite number of pages. I only use wget to avoid downloading a large number of links manually, and I'm always careful to make sure I only download what I'm trying to download.
Mozilla also needs better bookmarklet integration.
Can you elaborate on that? The bookmarklets I wrote work fine in Mozilla. (I can't test Galeon because it only runs on Linux.)
I tried a few more sites, and it worked on one of them.
A slashdot comment form: Ctrl+Z works.
A bugzilla bug comment form: Ctrl+Z doesn't work. The form also loses focus, but putting focus back in the form doesn't make Ctrl+Z work.
My start page (Google search form): Ctrl+Z doesn't work.
Ctrl+Z to undo resetting a form doesn't work for me in IE 6.0, and hasn't worked for me since at least IE 5.0.
Does that mean the Mozilla team doesn't have to fix bug 2586, "Print Preview animates GIFs"? Here's the original bug report:
In Print Preview, animated GIFs are still animated. I would love to say
that it is not a bug, but unless the printing code can then back the
preview up by animating the printed copy, I suggest the Print Preview
should show a static image.
This also applies to applets, Javascript, "hover" and "active" pseudo
classes, and so on.
If you write assembly programs for the TI-83 graphing calculator, you're writing in Z80 assembly. I don't know if they actually use a Z80 chip, or if they're using a clone or a faster-but-similar chip.
I gave Google $50 to advertise my site on some uncommon keywords and keyword combinations. I was surprised when I learned which keywords and which ads were doing best, but I was able to drop the keywords that were getting the lowest clickthrough rates. If I had been trying to advertise a revenue-generating site, I think that would have been a well-spent $50 for just the knowledge of the clickthrough rates for various keywords and various text ads. Since my site doesn't generate revenue, it was just a fun way to give my favorite search engine some money and learn a little about how advertising works.
I looked at the site for two minutes before I realized that the site was savannah. I thought it was source code hosted at sourceforge because they copied all of sourceforge graphics. I was wondering why they didn't provide a free-as-in-hosting version.
Detailed calculations of the dynamics of tumbling toast confirmed my suspicions, and revealed something else: that the presence of butter was more or less irrelevant. Neither its weight nor aerodynamic properties had much effect on how toast landed. The crucial factor is purely height - and toast sliding off a plate spins so slowly that only if it falls from heights above 8ft does it have much hope of regularly landing butter-up.
Does that mean the Zooks has it right after all? And to think we, the Yooks, almost bombed them into oblivion for eating their toast butter-side down.
-on another flagpole to the right of the first one, as long it's not flown higher.
If there are two flagpoles next to each other, how do I know which one to put my CA flag on and which to put my US flag on?
I don't watch TV often, but a few weeks ago I heard that the Discovery channel would have a show about the Mars Society's efforts on Devon Island this Wednesday. Over the weekend, I tried to figure out whether my dorm gets the Discovery channel. Very few students here watch TV regularly, so they weren't able to tell me whether we get the channel. After a student in another dorm pointed out that the Discovery channel always keeps their logo on the screen, I was quickly able to determine that our cable service does not carry the channel. Once I gave up on cable, I asked around to find a satellite hookup, and found one after about 10 minutes.
(The satellite system would show you the name of each channel as you flipped channels, making the channel logos less important.)