... best be cleaning up your act on here, else the jerries will be coming for you. Or is it bobbies? Coppers? Sadly, I don't know my proper English slang terms as well as I should.
If the suspect Johnson was shot and killed during exchanges of gunfire twenty minutes into the standoff, no one would care. He was a shooter, he was shooting at cops, he got shot. It would become a part of the tragedy that was last night, but no one would be calling for the head of the Dallas police officer who fired the gun with the bullet that ended his life.
Instead, DPD negotiated with him for hours. They gave him every opportunity to peacefully end the standoff, to lay down arms and leave with his life. I can only speculate on how those hours passed since we don't have details yet. But you don't spend that time before you drive a robot in with an explosive device without giving him several warnings. Johnson knew the only way out was if he laid down arms and came out with his hands up. Johnson chose not to do so. Instead he chose to continue to be a threat to the people of Dallas, to continue taking shots at police officers, and to continue to make threats on the citizens of the city. His life was in his own hands.
It is a tragedy that the end was what it was. This man chose to plan, organize, and execute a planned attack upon law enforcement officers who were guarding citizens demonstrating peacefully. This isn't about war, this is about terror. For the most part no one here in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is blaming anyone except for the individuals who carried out this attack. The rhetoric and platforming is primarily coming from y'all, the rest of the world. Here we're just mourning the loss of five officers who died in a peaceful situation for absolutely no reason other than other people were consumed by hatred enough to ambush them in the line of duty.
I don't care what the sides are. I don't care about anyone nitpicking the means. I care about the people around me. Y'all should too. And that's where it should end.
They did try. For hours. It's not like they had him cornered, counted to ten, and then decided to blow his ass up.
We don't know the details yet, but I will speculate and state that I personally believe that he had plenty of warning and he had plenty of time to reject said warnings before Dallas PD did what they had to do to end the situation. Everything DPD did last night/this morning was centered around one thing: protecting the lives of the people in Dallas. They did exactly that.
I will further speculate and state that I believe that Johnson knew he wasn't getting out of that garage alive. He had no intention of lying down arms.
Word is flying everywhere that FFXV will likely come to PC, and likely be bigger and better as well. I was also considering buying a PS4 for the same reason, but I'm definitely going to wait for the PC version. Even if it takes awhile it'll be worth it.
A guy from AT&T knocked on my door and said the same thing. "Really? Sweet! I've been waiting for ages." I took him into my backyard and said "Show me where." I don't have an alley and everything is aerial, so for them to bury fiber in the backyard would be a pain in the ass and waaaaay more expensive than just hanging it on the poles. He looked around on the ground for peds anyway, didn't see any, then stared up at the poles with a confused look on his face. "See that? *points* That's a 50 pair copper cable running down those poles serving my street and the street over there *waves*. That terminal there *points* feeds the copper drops going to those four *points* houses. The cable above that *points* is Charter's cable, and then I really hope you know that those cables up top *waves* are power lines. So tell me.. where's your fiber?"
He stood silent for a few seconds and said "I apologize for disturbing you sir" and walked off.
From my days as a premise tech for Uverse I'm 99% certain he was a contractor paid to sell door to door. They like to bend the "truth" that fiber does, indeed, serve a DSLAM somewhere in your neighborhood so therefore you have fiber service. However, I'm not paying AT&T's prices for bonded pair VDSL on old aerial cable to get 45 megs with bandwidth caps when I can get 60 megs from Charter with no bandwidth caps for less. If and/or when AT&T actually does run fiber down my poles, I'm pretty sure I'll notice, and I'll decide if the cost is worth the megabits and limitations then.
More of a tool than something technical, but this thing was passed down to me after my father went to the playground in the sky and has to be at least 25 years old. I've never even replaced the tip, just file it down now and then to retin the tip.
Another great tool (that also passed down to me, and is also similarly about 25 years old) is a Beckman Industrial DMM. I've used it extensively in projects indoor and outdoor and I would put it up against a Fluke for quality and accuracy. I love that two of my staples when it comes to tinkering have been so dependable over the years.
They didn't re-animate the facial expressions in Spirits Within.. it cost enough as it was to animate them to be speaking English. They just dubbed it and shipped it.
Is it completely sad and stupid that as I sat here first reading (without my glasses) this headline I was all excited because I read "Lars Ulrich Dapper on the LSB" - as in "Dude, the lead singer of Metallica has a ham license and gets on 75 and 40? Sweet!"
I think I'll go put my glasses on before continuing with my Slashdot experience.
Has anyone else ever tried to tell someone that the beeping that their Nokia phone makes when they receive a text message is Morse code for SMS? I have yet to meet a single person who's known that. I swear, Morse code is a dying language that will soon go the way of languages such as Latin and Aramaic - famous, scholarly, the old guys like it, but no one else gives a crap.
This is an incredibly electrifying development. The gaming community must be arcing with excitement! I, for one, simply cannot wait to be plugged into such action and adventure. Not to mention all of the amped up individuals bolting to recruiting stations to try their hand. This kind of technology blows away all of the current games by far. Let's hope that development is met with little resistance and that the capacitance of the developers' creativity is immeasurable.
(Yes, I know, it's horrible. The line to shoot me starts over there. *point*)
It's most definitely a case of "Hey, I wonder if I can nab this now and later screw the world out of their money..." Though when it comes right down to the letter of his patent, how can he sue Network Solutions and Registrar.com? THEY'RE not the ones who's actually DOING the process - all they're doing is lining up domains with IP addresses. It's all of the individual websites and ISPs that are supposedly infringing his patent - at least, the ones that set up e-mail and websites the way he describes.
This case won't stand up in court, and for it to stand up at all, it would have to be against an ISP or organization that assigns URLs and e-mails in the precise fashion his patent states - like my old website (now defunct) guy.thetaint.org with my e-mail having had been guy@thetaint.org.
This is just fine with me. At least I can put off my efforts at finding a 20 foot flyswatter to get rid of that stupid leaping butterfly that kept getting in my face whenever I wanted to see something cool.
You have to have an expanded memory manager for a SBLive DOS driver, because there simply isn't enough memory in the base 640k to support it. So forget it - it won't ever happen.
From what I understand from the context of this bug, you can have a cookie be sent as a result of reading an HTML-encoded e-mail, right? Well, there's one problem I have with this. The only way for the cookie to be sent to a banner-ad company - who supposedly has a cookie on your computer - would be for them to spam you, and we all know how bad spamming is. Sure, an ad company could start to throw something like this together, but it would only be a matter of time before the FTC got wind of it and started shutting people down.
If the e-mail was sent as a response to registering for software, or perhaps subscribing to some advertising-paid mailing list, then I suppose that would be legal. Even then, though, what good would linking the cookie to their e-mail address do but to promote more spam?
There's no way anyone could economically prosper off of this bug, and if they do, it's illegal because of the spam factor, and won't appeal to reputable companies, who the advertising companies are targeting for money. Microsoft and Netscape should probably get this hole looked at, though, just in case something destructive could come from it.
I don't see any viable way that XFree86 will be a future gaming standard. Even if the OS provides better utilization of 3D accelerators, there's still another matter entirely to think about - consumers. The majority of game playing is done by those who stick the CD in the CD-ROM, click install, and get out their joystick or game pad or keyboard or whatever, and go at it. They don't want to have to mess with anything just to get a game to work. Unless XFree86 is as easy to install as Windows 98, or if it starts shipping with massive gaming systems, game publishers aren't going to actively port their games to the OS. Sure, there will be a few (I see a version of Quake 3 in the future) that will be ported, but then it will take people who have the time, know-how, and patience of setting up the OS to work with their system to be able to install and play those games.
I'm all for a good, stable OS, even one that makes 3D-accelerated games rock. There's no point, though, in making it up to be anything more major than an operating system that tinkerers (like you and I) will spend many hours either enjoying ourselves with or pulling our hair out in frustration.
I must say that I've always wondered what would possibly happen if someone actually tried to do everything online. Personally, though, I wouldn't try to do it unless I had a buddy I could e-mail who would go run and do my shopping for me. I'd rather pay him $20 for his time than to pay $14 for deodorant, and eat sandwiches with Life cereal.
Although, I bet there are times when we've been so busy that life will become someone like this. I can remember many a day stuck in front of the computer all day, getting up only to use the bathroom and to call Domino's for my dinner. Good thing I had everything else I needed at home! =)
This goes out to all the wonderful Internet addicts out there - you're not alone! There ARE people more addicted than YOU! =)
First it's fraud because UPS's policy states that the money collected from insurance premiums will be used to pay on insurance claims. What they do with the excess at the end of their FY, I don't know - they probably have some procedure for allocations. But until that point, and until it's made official in policy, to skim 1/4 off of what they're taking at the point of sale is not cool.
You can't compare sending a package via UPS to parking in a parking structure. For one, your car isn't tossed into a truck with a bunch of other cars and driven all over the place that gets dug through when the truck stops to make a delivery. Postal services and parking are two entirely different worlds, so there's really no correlation there.
I know most of you believe this is trivial, but it's not. Personally, when I say my money is going to insure a package, then I expect it to go insure a package. I can't make it any clearer than that. When you pay for insurance on your car parked in the parking garage, would you like it if your agent was skimming your premiums for his own side interests? I think not.
Just to start, I believe this story is perfect for Slashdot because I can probably say that good percentage of the Slashdot community has used UPS in some form or another during their lifetime. Anyway, I have one question for UPS: Have you lost your MINDS?? The money that people fork out to insure expensive parcels really adds up, because SO MANY people send stuff via UPS every day! People don't pay the money to finance some other operation - it's a guarantee that if their shipment doesn't make it in one piece, they'll be reimbursed.
My mother is a clerk with the USPS - been working there almost as long as I've been alive. I've learned a lot about the mail system from her. They also have a similar insurance system for those who send valuables through US Mail. Well, a certain postmaster in a certain town decided they wanted to skim off money, so they took the money paid for insured shipments, didn't insure the items, used the cash to purchase USPS money orders, and flew. They was nailed, though, hardcore. This isn't too terribly different from what UPS is doing, except it's on a corporate level.
Personally, I'd love to see UPS burn for doing that. The money I pay to insure parcels better go to insure the parcel, and nothing else. Fraud is not a light issue in any sense.
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AOL's own Google Inbox, eh? Very original and innovative.
Once the average Russian gets tired of their homegrown software crapping out on them they'll be begging for their Windows 98 workstations back.
... best be cleaning up your act on here, else the jerries will be coming for you. Or is it bobbies? Coppers? Sadly, I don't know my proper English slang terms as well as I should.
If the suspect Johnson was shot and killed during exchanges of gunfire twenty minutes into the standoff, no one would care. He was a shooter, he was shooting at cops, he got shot. It would become a part of the tragedy that was last night, but no one would be calling for the head of the Dallas police officer who fired the gun with the bullet that ended his life.
Instead, DPD negotiated with him for hours. They gave him every opportunity to peacefully end the standoff, to lay down arms and leave with his life. I can only speculate on how those hours passed since we don't have details yet. But you don't spend that time before you drive a robot in with an explosive device without giving him several warnings. Johnson knew the only way out was if he laid down arms and came out with his hands up. Johnson chose not to do so. Instead he chose to continue to be a threat to the people of Dallas, to continue taking shots at police officers, and to continue to make threats on the citizens of the city. His life was in his own hands.
It is a tragedy that the end was what it was. This man chose to plan, organize, and execute a planned attack upon law enforcement officers who were guarding citizens demonstrating peacefully. This isn't about war, this is about terror. For the most part no one here in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is blaming anyone except for the individuals who carried out this attack. The rhetoric and platforming is primarily coming from y'all, the rest of the world. Here we're just mourning the loss of five officers who died in a peaceful situation for absolutely no reason other than other people were consumed by hatred enough to ambush them in the line of duty.
I don't care what the sides are. I don't care about anyone nitpicking the means. I care about the people around me. Y'all should too. And that's where it should end.
They did try. For hours. It's not like they had him cornered, counted to ten, and then decided to blow his ass up.
We don't know the details yet, but I will speculate and state that I personally believe that he had plenty of warning and he had plenty of time to reject said warnings before Dallas PD did what they had to do to end the situation. Everything DPD did last night/this morning was centered around one thing: protecting the lives of the people in Dallas. They did exactly that.
I will further speculate and state that I believe that Johnson knew he wasn't getting out of that garage alive. He had no intention of lying down arms.
Word is flying everywhere that FFXV will likely come to PC, and likely be bigger and better as well. I was also considering buying a PS4 for the same reason, but I'm definitely going to wait for the PC version. Even if it takes awhile it'll be worth it.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
A guy from AT&T knocked on my door and said the same thing. "Really? Sweet! I've been waiting for ages." I took him into my backyard and said "Show me where." I don't have an alley and everything is aerial, so for them to bury fiber in the backyard would be a pain in the ass and waaaaay more expensive than just hanging it on the poles. He looked around on the ground for peds anyway, didn't see any, then stared up at the poles with a confused look on his face. "See that? *points* That's a 50 pair copper cable running down those poles serving my street and the street over there *waves*. That terminal there *points* feeds the copper drops going to those four *points* houses. The cable above that *points* is Charter's cable, and then I really hope you know that those cables up top *waves* are power lines. So tell me.. where's your fiber?"
He stood silent for a few seconds and said "I apologize for disturbing you sir" and walked off.
From my days as a premise tech for Uverse I'm 99% certain he was a contractor paid to sell door to door. They like to bend the "truth" that fiber does, indeed, serve a DSLAM somewhere in your neighborhood so therefore you have fiber service. However, I'm not paying AT&T's prices for bonded pair VDSL on old aerial cable to get 45 megs with bandwidth caps when I can get 60 megs from Charter with no bandwidth caps for less. If and/or when AT&T actually does run fiber down my poles, I'm pretty sure I'll notice, and I'll decide if the cost is worth the megabits and limitations then.
Fabulous. We now have the missing technology for the pheromone-based killer drone swarms featured in Daniel Suarez's Kill Decision
Seriously someone should have read the manual before actually BUILDING them.
More of a tool than something technical, but this thing was passed down to me after my father went to the playground in the sky and has to be at least 25 years old. I've never even replaced the tip, just file it down now and then to retin the tip.
Another great tool (that also passed down to me, and is also similarly about 25 years old) is a Beckman Industrial DMM. I've used it extensively in projects indoor and outdoor and I would put it up against a Fluke for quality and accuracy. I love that two of my staples when it comes to tinkering have been so dependable over the years.
They didn't re-animate the facial expressions in Spirits Within.. it cost enough as it was to animate them to be speaking English. They just dubbed it and shipped it.
That's the risk you take, posting such cool stuff on your LJ. ;)
Have them burn Winamp and their favorite MP3s on a CD, then run it off the drive. Works great.
Is it completely sad and stupid that as I sat here first reading (without my glasses) this headline I was all excited because I read "Lars Ulrich Dapper on the LSB" - as in "Dude, the lead singer of Metallica has a ham license and gets on 75 and 40? Sweet!"
I think I'll go put my glasses on before continuing with my Slashdot experience.
Ooh. That'll learn me to read before I post.
;)
Thanks.
Has anyone else ever tried to tell someone that the beeping that their Nokia phone makes when they receive a text message is Morse code for SMS? I have yet to meet a single person who's known that. I swear, Morse code is a dying language that will soon go the way of languages such as Latin and Aramaic - famous, scholarly, the old guys like it, but no one else gives a crap.
This is an incredibly electrifying development. The gaming community must be arcing with excitement! I, for one, simply cannot wait to be plugged into such action and adventure. Not to mention all of the amped up individuals bolting to recruiting stations to try their hand. This kind of technology blows away all of the current games by far. Let's hope that development is met with little resistance and that the capacitance of the developers' creativity is immeasurable.
(Yes, I know, it's horrible. The line to shoot me starts over there. *point*)
It's most definitely a case of "Hey, I wonder if I can nab this now and later screw the world out of their money..." Though when it comes right down to the letter of his patent, how can he sue Network Solutions and Registrar.com? THEY'RE not the ones who's actually DOING the process - all they're doing is lining up domains with IP addresses. It's all of the individual websites and ISPs that are supposedly infringing his patent - at least, the ones that set up e-mail and websites the way he describes.
This case won't stand up in court, and for it to stand up at all, it would have to be against an ISP or organization that assigns URLs and e-mails in the precise fashion his patent states - like my old website (now defunct) guy.thetaint.org with my e-mail having had been guy@thetaint.org.
This is just fine with me. At least I can put off my efforts at finding a 20 foot flyswatter to get rid of that stupid leaping butterfly that kept getting in my face whenever I wanted to see something cool.
You have to have an expanded memory manager for a SBLive DOS driver, because there simply isn't enough memory in the base 640k to support it. So forget it - it won't ever happen.
From what I understand from the context of this bug, you can have a cookie be sent as a result of reading an HTML-encoded e-mail, right? Well, there's one problem I have with this. The only way for the cookie to be sent to a banner-ad company - who supposedly has a cookie on your computer - would be for them to spam you, and we all know how bad spamming is. Sure, an ad company could start to throw something like this together, but it would only be a matter of time before the FTC got wind of it and started shutting people down.
If the e-mail was sent as a response to registering for software, or perhaps subscribing to some advertising-paid mailing list, then I suppose that would be legal. Even then, though, what good would linking the cookie to their e-mail address do but to promote more spam?
There's no way anyone could economically prosper off of this bug, and if they do, it's illegal because of the spam factor, and won't appeal to reputable companies, who the advertising companies are targeting for money. Microsoft and Netscape should probably get this hole looked at, though, just in case something destructive could come from it.
I don't see any viable way that XFree86 will be a future gaming standard. Even if the OS provides better utilization of 3D accelerators, there's still another matter entirely to think about - consumers. The majority of game playing is done by those who stick the CD in the CD-ROM, click install, and get out their joystick or game pad or keyboard or whatever, and go at it. They don't want to have to mess with anything just to get a game to work. Unless XFree86 is as easy to install as Windows 98, or if it starts shipping with massive gaming systems, game publishers aren't going to actively port their games to the OS. Sure, there will be a few (I see a version of Quake 3 in the future) that will be ported, but then it will take people who have the time, know-how, and patience of setting up the OS to work with their system to be able to install and play those games.
I'm all for a good, stable OS, even one that makes 3D-accelerated games rock. There's no point, though, in making it up to be anything more major than an operating system that tinkerers (like you and I) will spend many hours either enjoying ourselves with or pulling our hair out in frustration.
I must say that I've always wondered what would possibly happen if someone actually tried to do everything online. Personally, though, I wouldn't try to do it unless I had a buddy I could e-mail who would go run and do my shopping for me. I'd rather pay him $20 for his time than to pay $14 for deodorant, and eat sandwiches with Life cereal.
Although, I bet there are times when we've been so busy that life will become someone like this. I can remember many a day stuck in front of the computer all day, getting up only to use the bathroom and to call Domino's for my dinner. Good thing I had everything else I needed at home! =)
This goes out to all the wonderful Internet addicts out there - you're not alone! There ARE people more addicted than YOU! =)
To answer everyones' questions:
First it's fraud because UPS's policy states that the money collected from insurance premiums will be used to pay on insurance claims. What they do with the excess at the end of their FY, I don't know - they probably have some procedure for allocations. But until that point, and until it's made official in policy, to skim 1/4 off of what they're taking at the point of sale is not cool.
You can't compare sending a package via UPS to parking in a parking structure. For one, your car isn't tossed into a truck with a bunch of other cars and driven all over the place that gets dug through when the truck stops to make a delivery. Postal services and parking are two entirely different worlds, so there's really no correlation there.
I know most of you believe this is trivial, but it's not. Personally, when I say my money is going to insure a package, then I expect it to go insure a package. I can't make it any clearer than that. When you pay for insurance on your car parked in the parking garage, would you like it if your agent was skimming your premiums for his own side interests? I think not.
Just to start, I believe this story is perfect for Slashdot because I can probably say that good percentage of the Slashdot community has used UPS in some form or another during their lifetime. Anyway, I have one question for UPS: Have you lost your MINDS?? The money that people fork out to insure expensive parcels really adds up, because SO MANY people send stuff via UPS every day! People don't pay the money to finance some other operation - it's a guarantee that if their shipment doesn't make it in one piece, they'll be reimbursed.
My mother is a clerk with the USPS - been working there almost as long as I've been alive. I've learned a lot about the mail system from her. They also have a similar insurance system for those who send valuables through US Mail. Well, a certain postmaster in a certain town decided they wanted to skim off money, so they took the money paid for insured shipments, didn't insure the items, used the cash to purchase USPS money orders, and flew. They was nailed, though, hardcore. This isn't too terribly different from what UPS is doing, except it's on a corporate level.
Personally, I'd love to see UPS burn for doing that. The money I pay to insure parcels better go to insure the parcel, and nothing else. Fraud is not a light issue in any sense.