I had a similar problem happen to me with my Playstation2, and Sony was amazingly helpful. Yes, it's true! Probably the best customer service experience I've ever had, and on an out-of-warranty PS2, no less! TWICE!
I had my PS2 start leaving nasty scratch rings on game discs, making them unplayable. I called Sony customer service, and they said (in a nutshell) that if the PS2 is eating discs, they'll repair it for free (even if the machine is out of warranty) AND cut you a check for the damaged games (full retail, even years later, and even if they weren't Sony-published games!) if you send in the games with the console. This took place in Spring 2003, more than 2 years after I bought the PS2. Everything worked like they said: I had the console back in less than a week, and a check a few weeks later.
Then, this happened a SECOND time, about a year later (2004 sometime). Same response: send in the PS2 with the damaged games, free repair+check for damaged games, and it worked like a charm. Before I sent it in, I even told Sony that I just noticed whoever repaired the machine the first time had forgotten to put a new "warranty void if removed" sticker on the PS2 case, and they said it was no problem.
I just can't believe how helpful they were in repairing my out-of-warranty stuff, the second time of which didn't even have the "warranty void if removed" sticker. Just good service, minimal muss and fuss, and I didn't even have to lie to the rep to get service. Huzzah!
but for genuine Islamic extremist terrorism they are rather useless. I see the term "Islamic" bandied about quite frequently, but is "Islamic" even a word?
It was my understanding that that if you are a follower Islam, you are a Muslim, not an "Islamist" or something similar. Islam = noun, Muslim = adjective. Why do people keep using the term? I had never even heard the word before 911/the current debacle in Iraq. "Muslim extremists" seems more accurate.
Protected Flash 9 applet fetching data via https with a custom certificate chain... NEXT. (the custom CA certificate makes a man-in-the-middle ssl proxy impossible. the protected applet makes it very hard to hack the flash into accepting an invalid cert... and the applet can be changed regularly.) OCR... NEXT.
This is a cool redistricting game that was launched out of the capitol building in Washington DC last week.
Did anybody else get the image of a 80's-era arcade videogame chassis flying out the front door of the Capitol? I did! Not the front door, but the top of the dome! launch=up in my brain
The DA just smiles at you and says... "I'd like to see the hidden container inside that TrueCrypt volume. My forensicist says oftentimes people do that with TrueCrypt." You say "umm... there isn't a hidden container... there's nothing more there..." The DA continues to smile. "Prove it to me." You say "umm... I can't... that's exactly what TrueCrypt means when they say it's hidden... you can't prove it exists and you can't prove it doesn't exist..." The DA rises from the table. "Say hi to your husband for me when you meet him." Huh? Last time I checked the prosecutor has to prove you guilty, and with only a jailhouse snitch (who has very little credibility) as evidence, what are they going to hang you with? The fact that you may or may not have an encrypted volume on your hard drive? May or may not != beyond a reasonable doubt...unless you mean that possession of a TrueCrypt volume is enough to get indicted (which you correctly state would be life-ruining), but I'm not even sure that would happen.
You've clearly never set foot in a courtroom, and trotting out your NSF-funded status doesn't make you any more believable. I've seen some pretty hilarious NSF grants before, PIs are just better at spinning shit nowadays.;)
What the heck is with this meme, anyway? I mean I understand where O RLY? and NO WAI come from, but what's with all the crazy misspelling in the sentence?
Is it like those little image sigs people have with some cute animal/photoshopped image that says something like "I'm a ninjuh, steeling yur change!"? I just don't get it.
Yes, because any research that disagrees with you obviously is funded by the evil corporations. Let me re-write that for you:
Yes, because any research that is funded by corporations is obviously evil.
If it ain't peer-reviewed (and I don't mean by the 2 other fringe scientists that happen to agree), then it ain't science, regardless of the venue/topic.
I was hired/worked as a Mac Genius in 2002 (flown to Cupertino for two weeks of training), and there was only a background check. No drug test, no physical, no medical questionnaire.
Old Lady #1: When my ex-husband passed away, the insurance company said his policy didn't cover him. Old Lady #2: They didn't have enough money for the funeral. Old Lady #3: It's so hard nowadays, with all the gangs and rap music.. Old Lady #1: What about the robots? Old Lady #4: Oh, they're everywhere! Old Lady #1: I don't even know why the scientists make them. Old Lady #2: Darren and I have a policy with Old Glory Insurance, in case we're attacked by robots. Old Lady #1: An insurance policy with a robot plan? Certainly, I'm too old. Old Lady #2: Old Glory covers anyone over the age of 50 against robot attack, regardless of current health.
[ cut to Sam Waterston, Compensated Endorser ]
Sam Waterson: I'm Sam Waterston, of the popular TV series "Law & Order". As a senior citizen, you're probably aware of the threat robots pose. Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel. Well, now there's a company that offers coverage against the unfortunate event of robot attack, with Old Glory Insurance. Old Glory will cover you with no health check-up or age consideration.
[ SUPER: Limitied Benefits First Two Years ]
You need to feel safe. And that's harder and harder to do nowadays, because robots may strike at any time.
[ show pie chart reading "Cause of Death in Persons Over 50 Years of Age": Heart Disease, 42% - Robots, 58% ]
And when they grab you with those metal claws, you can't break free.. because they're made of metal, and robots are strong. Now, for only $4 a month, you can achieve peace of mind in a world full of grime and robots, with Old Glory Insurance. So, don't cower under your afghan any longer. Make a choice.
[ SUPER: "WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves. ]
Old Glory Insurance. For when the metal ones decide to come for you - and they will.
GTA3's "K-Jah" radio station introduced me to both Dub and Scientist, and I have been a huge fan of both the artist and the genre ever since. Heck, I would sit around just listening to that station on the game while not even playing it. Then I figured out who Scientist is and started getting real albums...
On a related note, WipeOut XL (Wipeout 2097 for you non-Americans) introduced me to and got me hooked on techno (more specifically Big Beat) back in 1996, which eventually turned into a love-affair with all kinds of electronic music.
Do you HAVE to be a law officer, or can anyone sign up? I strongly suspect that you'll have to be a civil servant to go and train, but probably not an official law enforcement officer (LEO).
The federal government currently does this kind of training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia. I was a federal employee working for an Office of Inspector General, and I went to FLETC for 2 weeks of digital forensics training in a classroom. I was NOT a sworn LEO (i.e. couldn't take oaths, arrest people, or serve subpoenas), just an "IT Specialist", but a federal employee nonetheless.
Most of the other people in my particular class were State Department, assorted Interior (USFWS, BLM), or state/county/local cops (FLETC trains them if their org pays for it).
It's weaned. Don't use words you don't understand. Or that the slashdot "editors" don't understand. To be fair, I think they understood the meaning of the word. It was simply misspelled.
Ah, that makes more sense, I was thinking of a "typical" suburban, single-family-home setting.
I just moved away from Northern Virginia, where prices are also totally through the roof, and there were certainly multi-income, not-related-by-blood-or-marriage homes there.
You are so in for a surprise when you find out what people around you are earning. I don't mean this as humor, I'm entirely serious. Try this as an exercise: go round your neighborhood and estimate the cost of property. Now compute the price of a mortgage on those houses. Add in property tax. Now compute what salary you'd need to be able to afford those houses (and possibly maintain a family, two cars etc.). See what I mean? WTF are you talking about?
Most houses in a neighborhood are similar in price (generalization, I know), so I think the GP would *already* know how much it costs to live in a particular neighborhood, because he already does! Duh. The things that would be purchased by a household with more disposible income are INSIDE the house, where you can't see them.
And if he doesn't know how much he needs to make to live in a house, then chances are he already defaulted on his mortgage...
I've seen several (5+, not sure which model (20gb or 60gb)) PS3s on the shelves of several "big box" stores in the Chicago area. Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, etc.
Ever since about 2-3 weeks after launch they've been available everywhere around here. Want me to mail you one?;)
Are you going to school to get a grade or to get an education? [snip] but don't, by any means, allow your focus on getting a degree to prevent you from getting the best education you can from the experience. He's talking about High School, not college. HUGE difference, and grades are MUCH more important there (they get you into college).
I made the coolest Hangman program *evar* when I was in a BASIC-programming class as a Freshman in HS (complete with graphics, plugable wordlist files, difficulty levels, etc), and I got B instead of a A+ because nowhere in my code did I use a "do...while" loop, which was one of the project requirements. THAT's what the GP is talking about...
Reasonable doubt only applies for criminal cases, though, not civil. I'm sure that Microsoft has more than enough lawyers to file a few civil suites. True, Preponderance of Evidence is how civil cases are decided. If the company in question did have all the things the GP talked about:
original media, CD-cases and CD-Keys -- all the mechanisms of Microsoft's license enforcement I would think that the jury would *still* find for the defendant.
Has anyone considered contacting the FCC's Office of Inspector General about this issue?
OIGs are around to prevent "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse", I'm sure this falls in there somewhere. And believe me, OIGs are not lapdogs to their respective organizations, I worked in one and our Agency wasn't fond of us...;)
You're saying that because Rolex charges $5k for a watch, then it's OK to steal one.
Or, you can decide to pirate a copy, but please don't justify stealing by presenting yourself as a crusader against high-prices. Wow, you're an idiot.
He's not saying pirating is OK because the price is expensive, he's *MAKING A PREDICTION* that if Microsoft were to lower their prices, less people would pirate their products. That's almost certainly true, morals (which *you* brought up) aside.
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I had a similar problem happen to me with my Playstation2, and Sony was amazingly helpful. Yes, it's true! Probably the best customer service experience I've ever had, and on an out-of-warranty PS2, no less! TWICE!
I had my PS2 start leaving nasty scratch rings on game discs, making them unplayable. I called Sony customer service, and they said (in a nutshell) that if the PS2 is eating discs, they'll repair it for free (even if the machine is out of warranty) AND cut you a check for the damaged games (full retail, even years later, and even if they weren't Sony-published games!) if you send in the games with the console. This took place in Spring 2003, more than 2 years after I bought the PS2. Everything worked like they said: I had the console back in less than a week, and a check a few weeks later.
Then, this happened a SECOND time, about a year later (2004 sometime). Same response: send in the PS2 with the damaged games, free repair+check for damaged games, and it worked like a charm. Before I sent it in, I even told Sony that I just noticed whoever repaired the machine the first time had forgotten to put a new "warranty void if removed" sticker on the PS2 case, and they said it was no problem.
I just can't believe how helpful they were in repairing my out-of-warranty stuff, the second time of which didn't even have the "warranty void if removed" sticker. Just good service, minimal muss and fuss, and I didn't even have to lie to the rep to get service. Huzzah!
It was my understanding that that if you are a follower Islam, you are a Muslim, not an "Islamist" or something similar. Islam = noun, Muslim = adjective. Why do people keep using the term? I had never even heard the word before 911/the current debacle in Iraq. "Muslim extremists" seems more accurate.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29023
"Evil Genius Gates Drops Windows 98 Into NYC Water Supply"
Man do I love The Onion. SFW.
(the custom CA certificate makes a man-in-the-middle ssl proxy impossible. the protected applet makes it very hard to hack the flash into accepting an invalid cert... and the applet can be changed regularly.) OCR... NEXT.
You say "umm... there isn't a hidden container... there's nothing more there..."
The DA continues to smile. "Prove it to me."
You say "umm... I can't... that's exactly what TrueCrypt means when they say it's hidden... you can't prove it exists and you can't prove it doesn't exist..."
The DA rises from the table. "Say hi to your husband for me when you meet him." Huh? Last time I checked the prosecutor has to prove you guilty, and with only a jailhouse snitch (who has very little credibility) as evidence, what are they going to hang you with? The fact that you may or may not have an encrypted volume on your hard drive? May or may not != beyond a reasonable doubt...unless you mean that possession of a TrueCrypt volume is enough to get indicted (which you correctly state would be life-ruining), but I'm not even sure that would happen.
You've clearly never set foot in a courtroom, and trotting out your NSF-funded status doesn't make you any more believable. I've seen some pretty hilarious NSF grants before, PIs are just better at spinning shit nowadays.
What the heck is with this meme, anyway? I mean I understand where O RLY? and NO WAI come from, but what's with all the crazy misspelling in the sentence?
Is it like those little image sigs people have with some cute animal/photoshopped image that says something like "I'm a ninjuh, steeling yur change!"? I just don't get it.
I've never felt so old, and I'm only 27...=(
Yes, because any research that is funded by corporations is obviously evil.
If it ain't peer-reviewed (and I don't mean by the 2 other fringe scientists that happen to agree), then it ain't science, regardless of the venue/topic.
I call bullshit.
I was hired/worked as a Mac Genius in 2002 (flown to Cupertino for two weeks of training), and there was only a background check. No drug test, no physical, no medical questionnaire.
I doubt things have changed much since then.
Old Lady #1: When my ex-husband passed away, the insurance company said his policy didn't cover him.
Old Lady #2: They didn't have enough money for the funeral.
Old Lady #3: It's so hard nowadays, with all the gangs and rap music..
Old Lady #1: What about the robots?
Old Lady #4: Oh, they're everywhere!
Old Lady #1: I don't even know why the scientists make them.
Old Lady #2: Darren and I have a policy with Old Glory Insurance, in case we're attacked by robots.
Old Lady #1: An insurance policy with a robot plan? Certainly, I'm too old.
Old Lady #2: Old Glory covers anyone over the age of 50 against robot attack, regardless of current health.
[ cut to Sam Waterston, Compensated Endorser ]
Sam Waterson: I'm Sam Waterston, of the popular TV series "Law & Order". As a senior citizen, you're probably aware of the threat robots pose. Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel. Well, now there's a company that offers coverage against the unfortunate event of robot attack, with Old Glory Insurance. Old Glory will cover you with no health check-up or age consideration.
[ SUPER: Limitied Benefits First Two Years ]
You need to feel safe. And that's harder and harder to do nowadays, because robots may strike at any time.
[ show pie chart reading "Cause of Death in Persons Over 50 Years of Age": Heart Disease, 42% - Robots, 58% ]
And when they grab you with those metal claws, you can't break free.. because they're made of metal, and robots are strong. Now, for only $4 a month, you can achieve peace of mind in a world full of grime and robots, with Old Glory Insurance. So, don't cower under your afghan any longer. Make a choice.
[ SUPER: "WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves. ]
Old Glory Insurance. For when the metal ones decide to come for you - and they will.
GTA3's "K-Jah" radio station introduced me to both Dub and Scientist, and I have been a huge fan of both the artist and the genre ever since. Heck, I would sit around just listening to that station on the game while not even playing it. Then I figured out who Scientist is and started getting real albums...
On a related note, WipeOut XL (Wipeout 2097 for you non-Americans) introduced me to and got me hooked on techno (more specifically Big Beat) back in 1996, which eventually turned into a love-affair with all kinds of electronic music.
I love it when games change my life.
The federal government currently does this kind of training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia. I was a federal employee working for an Office of Inspector General, and I went to FLETC for 2 weeks of digital forensics training in a classroom. I was NOT a sworn LEO (i.e. couldn't take oaths, arrest people, or serve subpoenas), just an "IT Specialist", but a federal employee nonetheless.
Most of the other people in my particular class were State Department, assorted Interior (USFWS, BLM), or state/county/local cops (FLETC trains them if their org pays for it).
"must've" == "must have"
"must of" != "must have"
I've been seeing this mistake more and more as of late; don't let it happen to you! "'ve" and "of" sound very similar when speaking quickly. =)
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Ah, that makes more sense, I was thinking of a "typical" suburban, single-family-home setting.
I just moved away from Northern Virginia, where prices are also totally through the roof, and there were certainly multi-income, not-related-by-blood-or-marriage homes there.
Most houses in a neighborhood are similar in price (generalization, I know), so I think the GP would *already* know how much it costs to live in a particular neighborhood, because he already does! Duh. The things that would be purchased by a household with more disposible income are INSIDE the house, where you can't see them.
And if he doesn't know how much he needs to make to live in a house, then chances are he already defaulted on his mortgage...
I've seen several (5+, not sure which model (20gb or 60gb)) PS3s on the shelves of several "big box" stores in the Chicago area. Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, etc.
;)
Ever since about 2-3 weeks after launch they've been available everywhere around here. Want me to mail you one?
I made the coolest Hangman program *evar* when I was in a BASIC-programming class as a Freshman in HS (complete with graphics, plugable wordlist files, difficulty levels, etc), and I got B instead of a A+ because nowhere in my code did I use a "do...while" loop, which was one of the project requirements. THAT's what the GP is talking about...
Has anyone considered contacting the FCC's Office of Inspector General about this issue?
OIGs are around to prevent "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse", I'm sure this falls in there somewhere.
And believe me, OIGs are not lapdogs to their respective organizations, I worked in one and our Agency wasn't fond of us...;)
FCC OIG
General Description of U.S. OIGs
He's not saying pirating is OK because the price is expensive, he's *MAKING A PREDICTION* that if Microsoft were to lower their prices, less people would pirate their products. That's almost certainly true, morals (which *you* brought up) aside.