mostly consists of annoying as hell boxes that say "You don't have the latest Flash, click here to download."
To which I usually back up to TEXT ONLY, er Non-Rich Google and choose another site. Now thats 'rich'.
I HAVE 2 versions of Flash installed already. Besides the worst websites use flash, I mean even after I get flash, the site is still busy, ugly, and usually contains less info than a text cache at google anyway.
So now I guess we get another annoying download box.
Or uh say, open up a section for NEW bands to DIRECT MARKET. You know garage bands that are actually just as good or better than anything a LABEL has to offer. So with NO MIDDLEMAN LABEL involved the band AND Amazon stand to make more money. Oh this is so clever you'd think someone might have thought of this in 1997...oh wait.
Man, if we could just get someone to 'think different' or 'think outside the box' even.
They also have verbage in section 12 about "not publicly sharing site, or 'hotspots'", and its pretty confusing to me, does it mean I can't share the ATT 'site' VIA a open wi-fi? Or I cannot BE a open wi-fi???
But to drive the issue home as another poster stated, to WHICH competitor do I turn, as there are NONE? AT&T BOUGHT UP Bellsouth.
Now the net is so deeply entrenched in school and work, it would be difficult to work without it. Schools have started putting all my kids stuff on their sites. If work didn't block every single dam website and email I could just us the net from work, but thats not possible.
Hijacking the net will soon become big business...
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I got my T-40 from this place. http://www.usedpc.com/ It was flawless, and I buy used laptops exclusively.
I was not aware the the new Lenovos were like the 'T' series, more like the old 'R' series, am I wrong?
Amen. iTunes is as clunky as it windows counterparts.
Why on Gods Green Earth someone thought it would be fun to flatten hundreds of folders with 10s of thousands of files into 1 linear list I will NEVER, EVER know.
Look, keep my folders intact. Let me edit the mp3 file data myself. You know sometimes different bands HAPPEN to use the same TITLE for a song....
to drive the final stake thru the heart of 'organized crime, er music'.
CDs cost less than 25 cents to make, sell on the 'net for $3, pocket $2.75 profit. Worldwide audience. Perhaps the key is getting the music directly from the net to the cellphone, 25 cents each, listen anywhere.
Just waiting on someone with talent and vision to do it. There used to be plenty of talented musicians on mp3.com.
Well, it used to be called mp3.com. Originally, the bands joined the site, sold their own cds and stuff. Lots of really good stuff. Then several top groups started clearing over $100,000 a year, and the RIAA had to stuff them. Cause you know, if word got out to all the garage bands out there that you could spend $100 for 100 cdrs and make $800 when you sold em, well, then the RIAA would be out of business.
That was what 1997, 1998? I still have a bunch of the best tracks I got from there...
Theres really nothing to stop the indies for getting a big web site together, with rankings, and categories and awards. People are afraid they can't make any money at that I think. Or that they will be quashed by the RIAA. In this regard I think I-Tunes does the industry a disservice by keeping the old system propped up.
Re:SCOX: death throes begin - spasms of appeals
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Your kidding right? Nothing will happen to Darl. SCO most likely is already merely a Lich in the shroud of Bizzes owned by 'The Canopy Group'. They'll just set up another corps(e), and hire Darl as the CEO and keep funneling the money around. These ceo club guys are much smarter than that.
Oh yeah, not dangerous huh? Try googling for 'chrylser BCU headlights' or 'wipers'. The Body Control Computer goes bonkers and people lose their headlights/running lights and/or wipers, OR get really crazy, intermittant behaviour of these devices. If you don't think thats dangerous at night on wet roads...
Dealers do not like to replace these items because Chrysler cleverly put the odometer in there too. How hard it is to recode the odometer I don't know, its probably 4 bytes in a eeprom.
A better comparison is definitely NOT to a medical device.
Yes, well, THANK YOU MR. OBVIOUS! But its too f*&^king late for that (TFLFT!). Idiots and idiotic corporations continue to use it.
Corporations SHOULD double check and verify the info given to them. But heres the deal, they don't care. My mother in law opens a phone account with Sprint, using my wifes SSN. Sprint never verifies anything. We find out from family members, wife calls Sprint (since they think she opened the account) and closes it. THEN we try go thru channels to fix it up. Sprint faxes us a document they say documents the ID theft and fixes it. WRONG, its a transfer of account to US! Jackasses.
The best thing to do is figure out for yourself, how to create a new ID! Then use it to your advantage. The system is that badly broken.
The stupid monitoring shit doesn't help anything, just lets you know when you need to pay some company for your 'new' account.
Hmm, interesting SGI machines had very interesting architectures. Intergraph was a huge company, until they switched to WinNT. Its like they jumped to the bottom of the barrel and tried to compete with EVERYONE. It seems like thats a cardinal rule of business. After that they mostly tanked, trying to compete with Intel and M$.
And the REX6000, a pda in the shape of a PCMCIA card. How cool was that? Citizen supposedly developed a small replacement that used usb, but we only had a proto photograph. Most likely overcome by cellphones and their pda-like sw. I just wish the cell sw was better.
Sizable chunk? For every pilot there are 3-4 ground crew? Then there the many thousands behind them doing logistics, repair, configuration, air traffic control, fueling, arming, paperwork, training, etc.
Its inevitable. These little robots cost $1-4Million (the boeing demo was slapped together for $1million), vs $200Million for a F-22. 50 air platforms vs 1. The force multiplier cannot be discounted. And they still need pilots, probably a lot more.
Well, it was nice knowing you. Thats a wonderful, and truthfully accurate comment. However, these people in places of government, have money and power over you and I , the working masses. They take money from the 50% work force and give it to all the others who are sitting on thier collective asses all day.
In another time you might have heard Bush exclaim, "Let them eat cake."
9/11 merely facilitated putting in the framework whereby, statements like yours and mine, criticizing the gov, would land us in Guantanimo Bay, and not for a fancy beach getaway either. We all better support Iraq, otherwise those troops will return here and begin looking for us, people who beleive in the letter of the Constitution. Thats another problem with a small, highly effective military, they become detached from the population, we are merely 'dissidents', not citizens, friends, or relatives.
You and I and/.ers like us, are in the MINORITY. We will likely be killed and burned like David Koresh, and the gov will justify thier actions in the same manner.
"A serious attack by a technically savvy attacker with significant resources and a good plan can very likely do most of those things and a great many more.
If an attacker can do even a quarter of that, it'd take any industrial country a week to get back up after a fashion, and months to really get things back under control. So, no, it's probably not blown out of proportion. "
Correct.
For instance. Simply screw with everyones Identity. If you got 50% or more of the taxpaying population screwed with ID theft, they'd have to spend billions of man-hours and trillions of economy monies to straighten it all out. Definitely would take more than a FEW months, probably more like years.
Nearly the entire US economy is run on electronic transactions. Mess with enough of those and bye-bye economy.
And mil-networks are far more vulnerable than anyone here surmises.
I don't think anyone is prepared for the kind of meltdown just freezing the banks would cause.
Whats insane is the way they do it. In Chryslers, the odometer is in the 'chassis' module, the one that controls lights, wipers, a/c, etc. So when your wipers go berserk, they hate to change the module because they have to reprogram the odometer. Or in my case the interior lights are just nuts.
Why the heck not make the odometer separate anyway???
Electronics are fine, but design them to be modular and easily tested and replaced. BIT is your friend Mr. AutoMaker. BIT=built-in-test
The problem is how do you get out of the trap that Lucas setup. Plot hole trap that is.
In the first movies, with only 1 jedi at the time, we get all the stories about how great and powerful they were, but he didn't really have to deliver. Then in the GT cartoons, we see Mace Windu kill thousands of droids at one time. Then they toss in Grievous. So now we are supposed to see the bad-ass jedi being bad-ass....THEN Grievous is supposed to be slightly better, good enough to be able to kill several jedi. And in some of the written material I gathered he wasn't all to cracked up(pun) to be serving the Chancellor after they tried to kill him.
So how do you keep the story continuum with all the plot holes in place?
I'll probably watch a few if Grievous starts to kick jedi ass all over the place. hehehehe.
Nope. Get a copy of the Alabama State Income Tax forms.
On one of the pages is a box for "Taxes due from out of state purchases where sales tax was not levied." Essentially, the instructions said it was for Internet Purchases where sales tax was not levied. It says nothing of brick, sales rep or other presences. It specifically says for "internet purchases such as books, computers, or computer equipment."
Screw em, if they start taxing it, I'll just disconnect it.
Heres a thing your government doesn't want you to have, a memory.
I remember this little country over thar in Europe. Well the people got sick and tired of their government and revolted. They rounded up the king and queen and separated their heads from their necks.
I suggest all your emails and letters to Congress finish with this little reminder:
Slashdot Mirror
The KEY to getting out of Wal-Mart checkout lines in 30 seconds.....
Find out the DAY the REGIONAL MANAGER will be there !!!
I am serious, my wife experienced this as she stood there and talked to the regional manager afterwards.
Every checkout line was manned.
Me, I go to Publix, it might cost more, but the employees are very friendly and cheerful and I never have to wait in line more than a minute.
HIPAA doesn't protect 'you' or 'your data', HIPAA protects the Feds and the Medical Industry from lawsuits due to data theft.
That is all.
Heres an idea...give me all those medical documents, I'll keep them at home (or the Bank of Chiba) myself.
Bank of Chiba...
"We keep your money safe by^H^Hfrom prying eyes."
mostly consists of annoying as hell boxes that say "You don't have the latest Flash, click here to download."
To which I usually back up to TEXT ONLY, er Non-Rich Google and choose another site. Now thats 'rich'.
I HAVE 2 versions of Flash installed already.
Besides the worst websites use flash, I mean even after I get flash, the site is still busy, ugly, and usually contains less info than a text cache at google anyway.
So now I guess we get another annoying download box.
Or uh say, open up a section for NEW bands to DIRECT MARKET. You know garage bands that are actually just as good or better than anything a LABEL has to offer. So with NO MIDDLEMAN LABEL involved the band AND Amazon stand to make more money. Oh this is so clever you'd think someone might have thought of this in 1997...oh wait.
Man, if we could just get someone to 'think different' or 'think outside the box' even.
They also have verbage in section 12 about "not publicly sharing site, or 'hotspots'", and its pretty confusing to me, does it mean I can't share the ATT 'site' VIA a open wi-fi? Or I cannot BE a open wi-fi???
But to drive the issue home as another poster stated, to WHICH competitor do I turn, as there are NONE? AT&T BOUGHT UP Bellsouth.
Now the net is so deeply entrenched in school and work, it would be difficult to work without it. Schools have started putting all my kids stuff on their sites. If work didn't block every single dam website and email I could just us the net from work, but thats not possible.
Hijacking the net will soon become big business...
I got my T-40 from this place.
http://www.usedpc.com/
It was flawless, and I buy used laptops exclusively.
I was not aware the the new Lenovos were like the 'T' series, more like the old 'R' series, am I wrong?
Amen. iTunes is as clunky as it windows counterparts.
Why on Gods Green Earth someone thought it would be fun to flatten hundreds of folders with 10s of thousands of files into 1 linear list I will NEVER, EVER know.
Look, keep my folders intact. Let me edit the mp3 file data myself.
You know sometimes different bands HAPPEN to use the same TITLE for a song....
Be more like XMMS, and not the junky M$ stuff.
Doesn't matter, my shuffle died anyway.
to drive the final stake thru the heart of 'organized crime, er music'.
CDs cost less than 25 cents to make, sell on the 'net for $3, pocket $2.75 profit. Worldwide audience.
Perhaps the key is getting the music directly from the net to the cellphone, 25 cents each, listen anywhere.
Just waiting on someone with talent and vision to do it. There used to be plenty of talented musicians on mp3.com.
Well, it used to be called mp3.com. Originally, the bands joined the site, sold their own cds and stuff.
Lots of really good stuff. Then several top groups started clearing over $100,000 a year, and the RIAA had to stuff them. Cause you know, if word got out to all the garage bands out there that you could spend $100 for 100 cdrs and make $800 when you sold em, well, then the RIAA would be out of business.
That was what 1997, 1998? I still have a bunch of the best tracks I got from there...
Theres really nothing to stop the indies for getting a big web site together, with rankings, and categories and awards. People are afraid they can't make any money at that I think. Or that they will be quashed by the RIAA. In this regard I think I-Tunes does the industry a disservice by keeping the old system propped up.
Your kidding right? Nothing will happen to Darl. SCO most likely is already merely a Lich in the shroud of Bizzes owned by 'The Canopy Group'. They'll just set up another corps(e), and hire Darl as the CEO and keep funneling the money around. These ceo club guys are much smarter than that.
Yes, I use a trackball, no I do custom, embedded linux os work.0 3-DT&cat=MOU
I use this one, I prefered to use my fingers instead of my thumb. $21
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=904360-04
I got it because my wrists hurt with a mouse, since I got this a few years back, my wrists don't hurt anymore.
Don't know why they cost more, the parts are the same concept. Production scale I suppose.
Oh yeah, not dangerous huh? Try googling for 'chrylser BCU headlights' or 'wipers'. The Body Control Computer goes bonkers and people lose their headlights/running lights and/or wipers, OR get really crazy, intermittant behaviour of these devices. If you don't think thats dangerous at night on wet roads...
Dealers do not like to replace these items because Chrysler cleverly put the odometer in there too. How hard it is to recode the odometer I don't know, its probably 4 bytes in a eeprom.
A better comparison is definitely NOT to a medical device.
Yes, well, THANK YOU MR. OBVIOUS!
But its too f*&^king late for that (TFLFT!). Idiots and idiotic corporations continue to use it.
Corporations SHOULD double check and verify the info given to them. But heres the deal, they don't care.
My mother in law opens a phone account with Sprint, using my wifes SSN. Sprint never verifies anything. We find out from family members, wife calls Sprint (since they think she opened the account) and closes it. THEN we try go thru channels to fix it up. Sprint faxes us a document they say documents the ID theft and fixes it. WRONG, its a transfer of account to US! Jackasses.
The best thing to do is figure out for yourself, how to create a new ID! Then use it to your advantage. The system is that badly broken.
The stupid monitoring shit doesn't help anything, just lets you know when you need to pay some company for your 'new' account.
Hmm, interesting SGI machines had very interesting architectures.
Intergraph was a huge company, until they switched to WinNT. Its like they jumped to the bottom of the barrel and tried to compete with EVERYONE. It seems like thats a cardinal rule of business. After that they mostly tanked, trying to compete with Intel and M$.
And the REX6000, a pda in the shape of a PCMCIA card. How cool was that? Citizen supposedly developed a small replacement that used usb, but we only had a proto photograph. Most likely overcome by cellphones and their pda-like sw. I just wish the cell sw was better.
ROTFLMAO!
My dad told me that 20 years ago!
Sizable chunk? For every pilot there are 3-4 ground crew? Then there the many thousands behind them doing logistics, repair, configuration, air traffic control, fueling, arming, paperwork, training, etc.
Its inevitable. These little robots cost $1-4Million (the boeing demo was slapped together for $1million), vs $200Million for a F-22. 50 air platforms vs 1. The force multiplier cannot be discounted. And they still need pilots, probably a lot more.
Well, it was nice knowing you. Thats a wonderful, and truthfully accurate comment.
/.ers like us, are in the MINORITY. We will likely be killed and burned like David Koresh, and the gov will justify thier actions in the same manner.
However, these people in places of government, have money and power over you and I , the working masses.
They take money from the 50% work force and give it to all the others who are sitting on thier collective asses all day.
In another time you might have heard Bush exclaim, "Let them eat cake."
9/11 merely facilitated putting in the framework whereby, statements like yours and mine, criticizing the gov, would land us in Guantanimo Bay, and not for a fancy beach getaway either. We all better support Iraq, otherwise those troops will return here and begin looking for us, people who beleive in the letter of the Constitution. Thats another problem with a small, highly effective military, they become detached from the population, we are merely 'dissidents', not citizens, friends, or relatives.
You and I and
"A serious attack by a technically savvy attacker with significant resources and a good plan can very likely do most of those things and a great many more.
If an attacker can do even a quarter of that, it'd take any industrial country a week to get back up after a fashion, and months to really get things back under control. So, no, it's probably not blown out of proportion. "
Correct.
For instance. Simply screw with everyones Identity. If you got 50% or more of the taxpaying population screwed with ID theft, they'd have to spend billions of man-hours and trillions of economy monies to straighten it all out. Definitely would take more than a FEW months, probably more like years.
Nearly the entire US economy is run on electronic transactions. Mess with enough of those and bye-bye economy.
And mil-networks are far more vulnerable than anyone here surmises.
I don't think anyone is prepared for the kind of meltdown just freezing the banks would cause.
Whats insane is the way they do it. In Chryslers, the odometer is in the 'chassis' module, the one that controls lights, wipers, a/c, etc. So when your wipers go berserk, they hate to change the module because they have to reprogram the odometer. Or in my case the interior lights are just nuts.
Why the heck not make the odometer separate anyway???
Electronics are fine, but design them to be modular and easily tested and replaced. BIT is your friend Mr. AutoMaker. BIT=built-in-test
The problem is how do you get out of the trap that Lucas setup. Plot hole trap that is.
In the first movies, with only 1 jedi at the time, we get all the stories about how great and powerful they were, but he didn't really have to deliver. Then in the GT cartoons, we see Mace Windu kill thousands of droids at one time. Then they toss in Grievous. So now we are supposed to see the bad-ass jedi being bad-ass....THEN Grievous is supposed to be slightly better, good enough to be able to kill several jedi. And in some of the written material I gathered he wasn't all to cracked up(pun) to be serving the Chancellor after they tried to kill him.
So how do you keep the story continuum with all the plot holes in place?
I'll probably watch a few if Grievous starts to kick jedi ass all over the place. hehehehe.
The robot chicken spoofs are hilarious...
Nope. Get a copy of the Alabama State Income Tax forms.
On one of the pages is a box for "Taxes due from out of state purchases where sales tax was not levied." Essentially, the instructions said it was for Internet Purchases where sales tax was not levied. It says nothing of brick, sales rep or other presences. It specifically says for "internet purchases such as books, computers, or computer equipment."
Screw em, if they start taxing it, I'll just disconnect it.
Right, you want to see what the US cellphones don't want you to know.
http://www.phonescoop.com/
You'll see how Verizon hamstrung the Chocolate(LG 8500).
Buy your GSM phone direct then use Tmobile.
Bwahahaha, yes of course you are right. My memory was even worse than my government thought it was. :^)
At my house, it would have ended up in the clothes dryer.
:^)
Somehow my 'lost' stuff ends up getting washed and dried.
Thats how I know that a CF CAN survive heat and moisture!
Other stuff, not so lucky.
Heres a thing your government doesn't want you to have, a memory.
I remember this little country over thar in Europe. Well the people got sick and tired of their government and revolted. They rounded up the king and queen and separated their heads from their necks.
I suggest all your emails and letters to Congress finish with this little reminder:
"Don't be a Louis the XIV !"