Reading a few comments here it seems obvious that the US needs better consumer protection laws. Here at last there is *no* *way* a store would get away with charging customers to return a defective product.
In my expereince I have *never* had a problem with returning anything (but I don't try and rip stores off either). Perhaps it is because of better consumer laws here or perhaps it's because I shop at locally owned stores: I get friendly greetings, great service, quality product and no problems.
Oh yes, because it's obvious that you own a retail business and know all about it.
Do you have any other really important things to say about stuff you don't know shit about? It wouldn't have been so bad if you actually got the one thing you said correct but you couldn't even manage that.
When it comes to software in Australia, you just can't return it
Now listen carefully: YES YOU CAN! This is a common misconception that many people have but it is not true. You have rights as a customer and nothing a store says or does can change that. For example if a product is faulty or damaged or does not work as advertised you have the right to return it. It does not matter if the seal is broken or you have opened the case or even installed it. You have the right to return it. The store may say "no", but if you want your money back you can fight it and win. I have done so in the past.
Check google for "consumer rights" site:gov.au for more info. In NSW contact the "Office of Fair Trading"
For "just a friend"...if it was under $100, I probably wouldn't do crap
For a "real" friend - someone I would trust my life with, those rare few you have in your life, my response would entirely depend on the situation and context
I really feel sorry for you. If your would have known thieves as "real" friends and then trust them with your life you have bigger things to worry about!
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What kind of person potentially fucks up a kid's life and permanent record without at least trying to get him straightened out first?
Hey! It's not the OP fault that the "friend" commited fraud. Or are we not resonsible for our own actions anymore? If the "friend" can't hack the responsibility of his own actions he should GROW SOME FUCKING BACKBONE. Who are we to say that the "friend" wasn't fucking sombody else's (like the owner of the shop) life up by commiting the crime in the first place?
It's the fucks like this "friend" that make life harder for everybody else. I'm glad he was done in! And I bet your the kind of wimp that couldn't hack it either because "it's not my fault".
Yeah and some people are deaf dumb and blind to crimes that are *much* worse. Where you do you draw the line? Obviously you think fraud is OK, what about rape? murder? But it all ok isn't it, as long as it doesn't affect *you*?
If somebody defrauded you out of money wouldn't you like to catch the person who did it? IMHO the OP showed great depth of character and moral fibre to do what they did. Thankyou!
Personally I hope rackspace get raked over the coals for this one to serve as an example to other ISP's that this kind of flagrant disregard for privacy and the laws of the land cannot go unpunished.
Ha! What most people don't understand is that it's the flagrantdisregard that spam^H^H^H^Hrackspace does best!
Expect Vista to deliver in a big way. Not through "150 new features" like every release of Mac OS X, but through a general improvement in security, stability, and performance
Sorry, I've got security, stability and performance out of 5 year old hardware and Debian. What else have you got?
The UK believes that passenger locomotives are important enough that they should be under the control and purview of the same entities that have been their stewards in some cases since the literal inception of railroads itself, rather than in the hands of individual couintries that may not have the same level of experience. This isn't just about "running on time" or knowing how to run a get to the next station. That's the most vanishingly small part of this equation.
Also, it might help to remember that the UK, along with its vast military-industrial complex, Stockton & Darlington Railroad Company and Samuel Homfrays investments into pie-in-the-sky technologies, and their massive academic research establishment are what you and the entire fucking world HAS TO THANK for "passenger trains", and they proved that they can manage the stations and have a secure and well established network of capable contractors, so I think that, given the importance of trains to the US, its economy, and the rest of the world you're damned straight they have a vested interest in making sure critical internet infrastructure is properly administered (and by "administered", I don't mean from a engineering perspective).
And while the corporations with the maintenaince contracts make some money and might not want to see that go away, this decision is NOT for "making more money for some corporations". It's been made for the security of these critical infrastructure pieces. In our own system, we have some accountability and we know it. Even if individual countries meet our guidelines, there are no guarantees that their capability and contingencies are better than, or even meet, the capability that already exists in the prevailing arrangement. Why ratchet back from predictability and reliability, and a known set of variables, frankly, to "please" the international community? The "railroad system", in general, was not an international creation. It was a UK creation, the result of a lot of investment and research dollars from the exact entities that no one else would have supported. The fact that it has easily become an exceedingly open international and global tool is a testament to its creators.
(I realise there were a number of horse drawn rail wagons in Germany/Europe which is why I tries to use "passenger locomotives" where appropriate.)
I'm laying down in front of the bright yellow bulldozers out the front of his house making way for a new bypass as we speak. What I am surprised at is that he is down at the pub drinking beer and eating peanuts!
No, it's not quite like that. It would be more like: If the window repairman developed newer windows that were harder to break. If the vandal never broke the original windows, they would still be as easy to break as they originally were. But now, thanks to the Vandal, they're improved and rock-resistant.
Yes but the vandal will just get a bigger rock, and the window repair man stronger windows and where does this trend lead?. One day somebody invents a rock so big and so dangerous that it threatens the entire world! Countries will discard their old weapons and begin a new rock arms race pouring billions of dollars into stockpiling these massive, massive rocks (Obviously Wales^ will become the new super-power). Ultimatly we will face the extinction of our planet should even *one* of these rocks be thrown!
I propose a rock de-armament plan be started immediately to stop this imminent threat. Just imagine the calamity that would befall us should rocks fall into the hands of terrorists!
^According to my sources they have *lots* of rocks.
Pacifism is good in theory but I don't know any people who advocate pacifism when their families are facing imminent death. And that's the real clincher, not many people are willing to die for an idea.
And just to clarify my previous post: I don't justify doing one bad thing because of another, but simply that when the whole world is trying to kill each other and your about to die there isn't much people won't do to save their own lives. For the record I don't hate Japan (in fact it's on my "A" list of places to visit).
Does that justify, then, the use of nuclear weapons? I don't know.
I would find it hard to believe that there was much talk about "justification" at the time.
My grandmother was in a Japanese prison camp. She was there simply because she wasn't Japanese. She was "different" from them and perhaps that's while they raped and tortured her every day for months. Apparently it didn't matter to the Japanese that she was pregnant at the time. Later her son was born, but babies can't work so they don't get fed. One of the other prisoners (I don't even know his name) smuggled in some food & medicine to try and keep the kid alive. Unfortunately they found him out. The Japanese assembled all the prisoners in the camp to make an example of him. They shoved a fire hose down his throat and pumped water into him at high pressure, his stomach exploded and his internal organs flew all over the place. The prisoners could only watch as he died in agony, trying to pick up all his bits and put them back in.
This is not a unique story and not a particularly bad one when it comes down to it compared to a lot of the stuff that went on. A lot of really awful shit went on in that war.
Dropping atomic bomb(s) on a (comparative) handful of people (compared to the millions dying and in danger) to end the war with Japan is a no brainer. It only seem "wrong" to a lot of people today because they aren't having their internal organs removed and fashioned as a hat.
"It's just a matter of issuing "apt-get dist-upgrade" on the console..."
For individuals who don't have anything major to loose or anything special to worry about, sure. But not for large organizations with a support structure (help desk, local docs, procedures, etc.) that needs to be ramped up to support new changes.
Of course you just can't apt-get dist-upgrade (for some large/complex systems), but then I don't know of *any* system (computing or otherwise) that doesn't need testing before being put into production. If IT support isn't their for taking care of computers then your out of a job:-)
We don't really have many large animal species in aus. I ride a kangaroo to work every day but just imagine if I had a wombat as big as a car or a man eating lizard. I think having giant drop bears would mean even more tourists get eaten though.:-)
Digital Copy: You have a free digital copy. Now the only incentive into buying the work is so you have a physical book in your house - which, in and of itself is not enough reason for many people.
There are two main reasons I sell books to people: 1. They want a hard copy for themselves or as a present (and people don't give floppy disks as presents) 2. It was on TV.
I don't see that google indexing books is going to hurt the publishing industry any more than kids copying songs (ie it will probably have the opposite effect).
I don't stock many technical books, but I can tell you that the classics (not covered by copyright) do still sell very well. Of course it does help that we have classics for $4.95 AU and leather bound classics for $9.95 AU (Stephan King's latest pulp is $65 AU).
But oh, I forgot, this is slashdot, where the US is a horrible fascist dicatorship and Cuba is a magical wonderland of sharing and human kindness.
Wait, you think Cuba is bad for imprisoning librarians? Right. So do please tell me when was it that the USA released the hundreds of "innocent until proven guilty" people from Guantanamo Bay? Most haven't had a trial and have been imprisoned for how long now?
Oh, that's right, it's OK for the USA to fuck people over, after all you have "the bomb". Well congratulations.
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Q: How many dumb default passwords are out there anyway?
A: Lots!
Reading a few comments here it seems obvious that the US needs better consumer protection laws. Here at last there is *no* *way* a store would get away with charging customers to return a defective product.
In my expereince I have *never* had a problem with returning anything (but I don't try and rip stores off either). Perhaps it is because of better consumer laws here or perhaps it's because I shop at locally owned stores: I get friendly greetings, great service, quality product and no problems.
Oh yes, because it's obvious that you own a retail business and know all about it.
Do you have any other really important things to say about stuff you don't know shit about? It wouldn't have been so bad if you actually got the one thing you said correct but you couldn't even manage that.
When it comes to software in Australia, you just can't return it
Now listen carefully: YES YOU CAN!
This is a common misconception that many people have but it is not true. You have rights as a customer and nothing a store says or does can change that. For example if a product is faulty or damaged or does not work as advertised you have the right to return it. It does not matter if the seal is broken or you have opened the case or even installed it. You have the right to return it. The store may say "no", but if you want your money back you can fight it and win.
I have done so in the past.
Check google for "consumer rights" site:gov.au for more info. In NSW contact the "Office of Fair Trading"
For "just a friend"...if it was under $100, I probably wouldn't do crap
For a "real" friend - someone I would trust my life with, those rare few you have in your life, my response would entirely depend on the situation and context
I really feel sorry for you. If your would have known thieves as "real" friends and then trust them with your life you have bigger things to worry about!
What kind of person potentially fucks up a kid's life and permanent record without at least trying to get him straightened out first?
Hey! It's not the OP fault that the "friend" commited fraud. Or are we not resonsible for our own actions anymore? If the "friend" can't hack the responsibility of his own actions he should GROW SOME FUCKING BACKBONE. Who are we to say that the "friend" wasn't fucking sombody else's (like the owner of the shop) life up by commiting the crime in the first place?
It's the fucks like this "friend" that make life harder for everybody else. I'm glad he was done in! And I bet your the kind of wimp that couldn't hack it either because "it's not my fault".
Yeah and some people are deaf dumb and blind to crimes that are *much* worse. Where you do you draw the line? Obviously you think fraud is OK, what about rape? murder? But it all ok isn't it, as long as it doesn't affect *you*?
If somebody defrauded you out of money wouldn't you like to catch the person who did it? IMHO the OP showed great depth of character and moral fibre to do what they did. Thankyou!
Personally I hope rackspace get raked over the coals for this one to serve as an example to other ISP's that this kind of flagrant disregard for privacy and the laws of the land cannot go unpunished.
Ha! What most people don't understand is that it's the flagrant disregard that spam^H^H^H^Hrackspace does best!
Expect Vista to deliver in a big way. Not through "150 new features" like every release of Mac OS X, but through a general improvement in security, stability, and performance
Sorry, I've got security, stability and performance out of 5 year old hardware and Debian. What else have you got?
I know someone else who has *huge*... tracks of land!
The UK believes that passenger locomotives are important enough that they should be under the control and purview of the same entities that have been their stewards in some cases since the literal inception of railroads itself, rather than in the hands of individual couintries that may not have the same level of experience. This isn't just about "running on time" or knowing how to run a get to the next station. That's the most vanishingly small part of this equation.
Also, it might help to remember that the UK, along with its vast military-industrial complex, Stockton & Darlington Railroad Company and Samuel Homfrays investments into pie-in-the-sky technologies, and their massive academic research establishment are what you and the entire fucking world HAS TO THANK for "passenger trains", and they proved that they can manage the stations and have a secure and well established network of capable contractors, so I think that, given the importance of trains to the US, its economy, and the rest of the world you're damned straight they have a vested interest in making sure critical internet infrastructure is properly administered (and by "administered", I don't mean from a engineering perspective).
And while the corporations with the maintenaince contracts make some money and might not want to see that go away, this decision is NOT for "making more money for some corporations". It's been made for the security of these critical infrastructure pieces. In our own system, we have some accountability and we know it. Even if individual countries meet our guidelines, there are no guarantees that their capability and contingencies are better than, or even meet, the capability that already exists in the prevailing arrangement. Why ratchet back from predictability and reliability, and a known set of variables, frankly, to "please" the international community? The "railroad system", in general, was not an international creation. It was a UK creation, the result of a lot of investment and research dollars from the exact entities that no one else would have supported. The fact that it has easily become an exceedingly open international and global tool is a testament to its creators.
(I realise there were a number of horse drawn rail wagons in Germany/Europe which is why I tries to use "passenger locomotives" where appropriate.)
I'm laying down in front of the bright yellow bulldozers out the front of his house making way for a new bypass as we speak. What I am surprised at is that he is down at the pub drinking beer and eating peanuts!
No, it's not quite like that. It would be more like: If the window repairman developed newer windows that were harder to break. If the vandal never broke the original windows, they would still be as easy to break as they originally were. But now, thanks to the Vandal, they're improved and rock-resistant.
Yes but the vandal will just get a bigger rock, and the window repair man stronger windows and where does this trend lead?. One day somebody invents a rock so big and so dangerous that it threatens the entire world! Countries will discard their old weapons and begin a new rock arms race pouring billions of dollars into stockpiling these massive, massive rocks (Obviously Wales^ will become the new super-power). Ultimatly we will face the extinction of our planet should even *one* of these rocks be thrown!
I propose a rock de-armament plan be started immediately to stop this imminent threat. Just imagine the calamity that would befall us should rocks fall into the hands of terrorists!
^According to my sources they have *lots* of rocks.
Pacifism is good in theory but I don't know any people who advocate pacifism when their families are facing imminent death. And that's the real clincher, not many people are willing to die for an idea.
And just to clarify my previous post: I don't justify doing one bad thing because of another, but simply that when the whole world is trying to kill each other and your about to die there isn't much people won't do to save their own lives. For the record I don't hate Japan (in fact it's on my "A" list of places to visit).
Does that justify, then, the use of nuclear weapons? I don't know.
I would find it hard to believe that there was much talk about "justification" at the time.
My grandmother was in a Japanese prison camp. She was there simply because she wasn't Japanese. She was "different" from them and perhaps that's while they raped and tortured her every day for months. Apparently it didn't matter to the Japanese that she was pregnant at the time. Later her son was born, but babies can't work so they don't get fed. One of the other prisoners (I don't even know his name) smuggled in some food & medicine to try and keep the kid alive. Unfortunately they found him out. The Japanese assembled all the prisoners in the camp to make an example of him. They shoved a fire hose down his throat and pumped water into him at high pressure, his stomach exploded and his internal organs flew all over the place. The prisoners could only watch as he died in agony, trying to pick up all his bits and put them back in.
This is not a unique story and not a particularly bad one when it comes down to it compared to a lot of the stuff that went on. A lot of really awful shit went on in that war.
Dropping atomic bomb(s) on a (comparative) handful of people (compared to the millions dying and in danger) to end the war with Japan is a no brainer. It only seem "wrong" to a lot of people today because they aren't having their internal organs removed and fashioned as a hat.
Us big heads don't have all the advantages you know. At 63" I have to make my own hats.
We had a few photos that were not very good, but captured a particularly important event.
:-P
Your wife getting boned by the best man?
*You* getting boned by the best man
"I created and maintain dodgeit.com"
Thankyou!
"It's just a matter of issuing "apt-get dist-upgrade" on the console..."
:-)
For individuals who don't have anything major to loose or anything special to worry about, sure. But not for large organizations with a support structure (help desk, local docs, procedures, etc.) that needs to be ramped up to support new changes.
Of course you just can't apt-get dist-upgrade (for some large/complex systems), but then I don't know of *any* system (computing or otherwise) that doesn't need testing before being put into production. If IT support isn't their for taking care of computers then your out of a job
We don't really have many large animal species in aus. I ride a kangaroo to work every day but just imagine if I had a wombat as big as a car or a man eating lizard. I think having giant drop bears would mean even more tourists get eaten though. :-)
If you want some more info check out:
Some aussie megafauna
Reasons For Extinction
3. Installation of Netscape breaks IE.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't one upgrade (3.1 -> 95 or 95 -> 98) of Windows uninstall Netscape?
Digital Copy: You have a free digital copy. Now the only incentive into buying the work is so you have a physical book in your house - which, in and of itself is not enough reason for many people.
There are two main reasons I sell books to people:
1. They want a hard copy for themselves or as a present (and people don't give floppy disks as presents)
2. It was on TV.
I don't see that google indexing books is going to hurt the publishing industry any more than kids copying songs (ie it will probably have the opposite effect).
I don't stock many technical books, but I can tell you that the classics (not covered by copyright) do still sell very well. Of course it does help that we have classics for $4.95 AU and leather bound classics for $9.95 AU (Stephan King's latest pulp is $65 AU).
Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology
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Adam Young, Moti Yung
ISBN: 0-7645-4975-8
Paperback
416 pages
February 2004
Published by Wiley: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productC
But oh, I forgot, this is slashdot, where the US is a horrible fascist dicatorship and Cuba is a magical wonderland of sharing and human kindness.
Wait, you think Cuba is bad for imprisoning librarians? Right. So do please tell me when was it that the USA released the hundreds of "innocent until proven guilty" people from Guantanamo Bay? Most haven't had a trial and have been imprisoned for how long now?
Oh, that's right, it's OK for the USA to fuck people over, after all you have "the bomb". Well congratulations.