It's usually not even the banks that get the sites shut down, it's the web hosts. What will happen is they'll take out a dirt cheap account on a host, then they'll set up their spam scripts and have things start running. Fortunately for web hosts, most spamming scripts are very badly written, and will cause server load to spike. Once this happens, someone goes in and investigates, and once this happens, the spammer is banninated for terms of service violations. Since accounts are cheap (I can readily get a month's hosting for a penny), and it's easy to fake a name, address, and set up a bogus PayPal account (getting around identity verification techniques is mostly trivial, and fraud detection software will frequently report the distance between an IP location and a billing address as much larger than is possible while remaining on the Earth's surface), you just keep playing the same hosts when you get banned.
Of course, some of the more enterprising spammers will simply set up their own webserver and hijack other people's sites to send out the spam for them. This is a bit more insidious, as the spammer doesn't go away when you cancel the account, and someone's blog/store/whatever is taken offline for someone else's douchebaggery.
Actually, the relevant company is General Electric, which also owns NBC, SciFi (in the US), and the USA Network, in addition to Universal. What refrigerators have to do with television, movies, and music is beyond me.
However, these aren't the same tards that canceled Farscape. That was Vivendi, which used to own SciFi and USA, as well as Universal.
So how exactly do you explain the majority of games introduced by EA, Ubisoft, and what seems like every American and European third party studio? I still strongly associate these labels with crap games.
It's because the vast majority of documents aren't really meant for publication. For example, research notes may wind up in a publication (where TeX and PDF would be appropriate), but the bulk of such notes will eventually be edited out of the end publication. Instead, they need to be in an easily editable format so that changes can be made when they occur in the lab. 50 years from now, those research notes may still be needed for one reason or another.
This is where word processing comes in to fill the gap between text editors (which don't have support for rich text or images) and desktop publication (which put out formats that aren't intended to be edited).
Seriously, did you think all of those cellular phone manufacturers made their own versions of Java to run your phone's web browser? Nope. Sun charged them quite a bit of money for the effort. They might not make much money on Java on the desktop, save for trademark royalties from companies that make their own implementation of Java (IBM, Blackdown, about a dozen others), but in the embedded market, there's work to be done to make Java actually usable.
That said, Sun's bread and butter is still in the hardware business.
I work for a company that got burned on outsourcing its support to India. That said, the one guy we hired off of the outsourcing company knows more about Linux than the rest of our system administrators put together. To this day, if anybody has a question that we've found unanswerable by an American employee, we will send him a message.
EasyUbuntu is better, but it's still not ideal. It retrieves the.debs from upstream and installs them, then leaves everything alone. Unfortunately, it doesn't grab updates.
The ideal solution would add universe and multiverse and then grab everything from there, w32codecs be damned (or installed a la EasyUbuntu. I'm thinking about writing something that does just that.
I almost missed the joke because I skipped everything after I recognized the first sentence. I've actually been watching the show from start to finish, as I got it on DVD from a friend that was shipping out for Iraq. After about 3 hours, my laptop's processor overheats and can't take it anymore, but that's neither here nor there.
The one thing I can't help but notice is how primitive some of the CGI is. Granted, they went with prosthetics for all but the most extreme things, which certainly helped, and they kept things fairly basic on the space battles so that they wouldn't age too badly, but the technology does show. That said, the show remains watchable after all this time, which is a small miracle in and of itself.
Every time I use Visual C++ for my Data Structures class (it's what's installed on the terminals in the classroom--I'm a strict GCC user myself), a little part of the programmer in me dies. The teacher is mildly amused by the fact that you can do point-and-click programming in that language, I think. I, however, remain unimpressed with its inability to adhere to standards.
Seriously, I've been an LJ user since 2003. Never before have I been this pissed at them. Thank goodness I'm getting my own webspace soon. Yeah, I know, with the spare parts I've got lying around the place, I could set up my own Apache server, but I'm too lazy, and my current Internet provider forbids webservers.
I don't know whether to moderate this +1 insightful or +1 funny, because while astrology is hardly a topic of truly serious study, you did at least get the right associations for everything. Though, while I can see the conjunction of genitals (Scorpio) and fungi (also Scorpio) playing out as a problem (jock itch, yeast infections), and there are some serious problems with foot-based fungal infections (infected toenails, athlete's foot) that align with the Pisces (foot) and Scorpio trine, what about the breasts/chest (Cancer)? I've never really heard much of fungal infections being a serious problem there.
On a not-really-related note, tinea spp. are very annoying, and I don't care if they keep coming back, I want to kill them. Bring on the anti-fungals!
If they don't allow for/limit the number of addon domains, I might be able to understand having multiple accounts with a single provider. That said, I'd personally be suspicious of any company that didn't allow addons.
But this is not only pre-trial stuff, the kid is not, as far as the documentation says, the defendant, but the defendant's son. What's more, this is a frivolous and abusive lawsuit--not a criminal trial. If you're on trial for criminal charges, you're probably suspended from school anyway--this is generally the state of things in Texas. I don't know what happens if you get acquitted.
Well, looking around in my comp sci classes, there are maybe about three guys in there, myself included, that don't have some kind of stench. The women in there, though, are entirely math majors, which require a good number of comp sci classes.
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Oh, they do too. They just won't admit it and feel guilty about the whole thing.
It's usually not even the banks that get the sites shut down, it's the web hosts. What will happen is they'll take out a dirt cheap account on a host, then they'll set up their spam scripts and have things start running. Fortunately for web hosts, most spamming scripts are very badly written, and will cause server load to spike. Once this happens, someone goes in and investigates, and once this happens, the spammer is banninated for terms of service violations. Since accounts are cheap (I can readily get a month's hosting for a penny), and it's easy to fake a name, address, and set up a bogus PayPal account (getting around identity verification techniques is mostly trivial, and fraud detection software will frequently report the distance between an IP location and a billing address as much larger than is possible while remaining on the Earth's surface), you just keep playing the same hosts when you get banned.
Of course, some of the more enterprising spammers will simply set up their own webserver and hijack other people's sites to send out the spam for them. This is a bit more insidious, as the spammer doesn't go away when you cancel the account, and someone's blog/store/whatever is taken offline for someone else's douchebaggery.
It's far too easy to be one of the bad guys.
Actually, the relevant company is General Electric, which also owns NBC, SciFi (in the US), and the USA Network, in addition to Universal. What refrigerators have to do with television, movies, and music is beyond me.
However, these aren't the same tards that canceled Farscape. That was Vivendi, which used to own SciFi and USA, as well as Universal.
You can keep your NeXT box. I'll be sitting here on my Mac--same operating system, 17 years later.
Better idea: instead of popping up a dialog asking to install 3D acceleration, the installer just does it. After all, it'll be free software.
So how exactly do you explain the majority of games introduced by EA, Ubisoft, and what seems like every American and European third party studio? I still strongly associate these labels with crap games.
It's because the vast majority of documents aren't really meant for publication. For example, research notes may wind up in a publication (where TeX and PDF would be appropriate), but the bulk of such notes will eventually be edited out of the end publication. Instead, they need to be in an easily editable format so that changes can be made when they occur in the lab. 50 years from now, those research notes may still be needed for one reason or another.
This is where word processing comes in to fill the gap between text editors (which don't have support for rich text or images) and desktop publication (which put out formats that aren't intended to be edited).
Two words: embedded devices.
Seriously, did you think all of those cellular phone manufacturers made their own versions of Java to run your phone's web browser? Nope. Sun charged them quite a bit of money for the effort. They might not make much money on Java on the desktop, save for trademark royalties from companies that make their own implementation of Java (IBM, Blackdown, about a dozen others), but in the embedded market, there's work to be done to make Java actually usable.
That said, Sun's bread and butter is still in the hardware business.
You can run Active Server Pages on Linux, you know. I know that Sun makes an implementation, though it's not compatible with ASP.NET.
I'm not so sure about that.
I work for a company that got burned on outsourcing its support to India. That said, the one guy we hired off of the outsourcing company knows more about Linux than the rest of our system administrators put together. To this day, if anybody has a question that we've found unanswerable by an American employee, we will send him a message.
EasyUbuntu is better, but it's still not ideal. It retrieves the .debs from upstream and installs them, then leaves everything alone. Unfortunately, it doesn't grab updates.
The ideal solution would add universe and multiverse and then grab everything from there, w32codecs be damned (or installed a la EasyUbuntu. I'm thinking about writing something that does just that.
I almost missed the joke because I skipped everything after I recognized the first sentence. I've actually been watching the show from start to finish, as I got it on DVD from a friend that was shipping out for Iraq. After about 3 hours, my laptop's processor overheats and can't take it anymore, but that's neither here nor there.
The one thing I can't help but notice is how primitive some of the CGI is. Granted, they went with prosthetics for all but the most extreme things, which certainly helped, and they kept things fairly basic on the space battles so that they wouldn't age too badly, but the technology does show. That said, the show remains watchable after all this time, which is a small miracle in and of itself.
Every time I use Visual C++ for my Data Structures class (it's what's installed on the terminals in the classroom--I'm a strict GCC user myself), a little part of the programmer in me dies. The teacher is mildly amused by the fact that you can do point-and-click programming in that language, I think. I, however, remain unimpressed with its inability to adhere to standards.
Damn typos.
Nec eos omnes. Deus suos agnocet.
Seriously, I've been an LJ user since 2003. Never before have I been this pissed at them. Thank goodness I'm getting my own webspace soon. Yeah, I know, with the spare parts I've got lying around the place, I could set up my own Apache server, but I'm too lazy, and my current Internet provider forbids webservers.
Oh, Firefox just stops the JavaScript. The new discussion system is a farce. Some good ideas, but very badly implemented.
You're better off fucking shit than fucking with that piece of shit. It sucks so much it fucks. It fucks so much it fucking sucks.
It sucks monkey fuck. Sucks monkey fuck.
Oh, man, I could go on all day, quoting the Angry Video Game Nerd on the Power Glove. But I think "sucks monkey fuck" about covers it.
I don't know whether to moderate this +1 insightful or +1 funny, because while astrology is hardly a topic of truly serious study, you did at least get the right associations for everything. Though, while I can see the conjunction of genitals (Scorpio) and fungi (also Scorpio) playing out as a problem (jock itch, yeast infections), and there are some serious problems with foot-based fungal infections (infected toenails, athlete's foot) that align with the Pisces (foot) and Scorpio trine, what about the breasts/chest (Cancer)? I've never really heard much of fungal infections being a serious problem there.
On a not-really-related note, tinea spp. are very annoying, and I don't care if they keep coming back, I want to kill them. Bring on the anti-fungals!
Actually, most of the core Republican voters I know are trial attorneys.
If they don't allow for/limit the number of addon domains, I might be able to understand having multiple accounts with a single provider. That said, I'd personally be suspicious of any company that didn't allow addons.
See also: my sig.
Your latin is actually quite correct.
However, the fact is moot: "SCO se deleveit" would be more accurate.
But this is not only pre-trial stuff, the kid is not, as far as the documentation says, the defendant, but the defendant's son. What's more, this is a frivolous and abusive lawsuit--not a criminal trial. If you're on trial for criminal charges, you're probably suspended from school anyway--this is generally the state of things in Texas. I don't know what happens if you get acquitted.
What's next?
The Borg.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Well, looking around in my comp sci classes, there are maybe about three guys in there, myself included, that don't have some kind of stench. The women in there, though, are entirely math majors, which require a good number of comp sci classes.
We won't even mention Jack Thompson, because that's too damn easy.