Will somebody PLEASE think of the...prostitutes, dealers, and drug runners?
I mean, they're really the heart and soul of our illicit underground, and if we don't save them from this sort of senseless abuse by our police, what does that say about the rest of us?
Keybank goes back 18 months, has multiple formats, and allows you to create and store labels that you can assign to an item (Income - type 1, Expense - type 2, Meals and Entertainment, etc) on the fly when it happens so 3 - 18 months later when you come back to the transactions, you don't have to wonder which of those transactions were write offs.
"However Google believes Abbott is the first state attorney general to open an antitrust review into the issue."
Did they used Google search to determine this?
A poor, white, rural American FINALLY gets a job in this terrible economy, and we lock him up. A word of warning to all your crackers out there, give up hope now.
I'll start laughing once I'm finished pinching off a new universe.
Personally, I think if nothing else, the smell is indeed QUITE spectacular and I don't know how he expects to pinch one off in a room full of observant scientists with no one noticing the utterly out of place voiding process.
Desirable feature? Seriously? I hate WMV....not fanatically, but the less of it I have on my system the better. I've persistently refused to allow it to 'update' automatically as every new version seems to include some extra level of DRM or god knows what that wreaks havoc with every other installed video app and codec on my laptop. The only reason I'm using 9 instead of 7 or 8 is because it force fed an update onto my system through another program and then windows refused to let it go away. When I finally get around to reinstalling xp, I'm happily going back to the earliest version I can muster. I've even shied away from things like the Amazon store because it requires the 'latest version' of Media Player to play it's garbage. It just seems unnecessary, and when you read stories about Netflix or Amazon or other programs choosing for you what you can and can't do with your own hardware it just feels wrong.
Sounds about right. Both of my two loss prevention supervisors were caught (by me) with their hands in the cookie jar, but because they had either turned off or turned away the video cameras, they weren't fired for weeks until they slipped up on stupid things like dress code or arriving late.
There was a PC tech at the Best Buy store where I worked who was involved in this kind of stuff. He'd have a friend bring in his'computer' - really just an empty case, to be worked on.
During the day, he'd go pick up items off the shelf that he wanted to get into his system....a hard drive here, a cd-rom drive there, a nice new video card. He'd get them while showing people who were looking for similar items and then not return them to the shelf. Then a quick hop to the back, slip open the plastic, remove the item, and drop some junk in there. Walk around the counter, reseal the item, send it back to the floor, and spend the rest of the day 'repairing' the box and configuring his new computer.
Of course, since he did this 'in' the store, everything looked legit when it went out to the floor, price tags, etc. Things with clear cases (like RAM) he just put inside the computer and walked out when he was ready to go.
Of course, this isn't a big surprise, Best Buy has huge problems with employee theft. In the time that I was working security, I busted more than 6 employees for theft...two of them were my own loss prevention supervisors. Loss Prevention is really there for the employees, the customers we couldn't really stop anyway (nor will we when they pull a knife or other shit out). Of course, both of those employees were 'let go' for minor infractions, but they were robbing the place blind. The first one had the balls to mount 'investigations' every time something went missing...interviewing everyone in his office. It's hard to keep the sheep safe when the shepherds are cooking them up every night.
I'm sorry, but the UK communications act is a crock of shit if it makes it illegial to turn on your laptop in a public place. My laptop bounces from router to router without any control or direction from me. Even if I wanted to tether with my phone, it will simply find a stronger connection and pow, suddenly I'm breaking the law. I call BS on this whole line of legal reasoning and suggest we burn the patent officers and the legal aids.
I think you're missing his point. Remotely hosting content opens people up to risks. He's going for the difference between outlook / thunderbird and gmail, and he makes a reasonable point. If my computer breaks down, I'm the fool who didn't back up. When a hosted solution goes down, everyone loses. It's not rocket science deduction he's doing, but it's still relevant to the overall point that Google goes down, service providers are inherently unreliable to some extent, and, as you said, life goes on. Unless it's me, and THEN I'm pissed.
That part seems a bit draconian. I agree to let them charge me arbitrary fees for things like customer service? Yikes. But interesting, thanks for the heads up.
It talks about language in the article, and how the verbiage was on the site. I think you're spot on, because there's no way the text on a site can be construed in that fashion. There are rules and requirements for determining if 'notice' is sufficient. The robots.txt file _is_ the language to use to post such as notice, and not understanding such measures doesn't excuse the woman's actions in suing company's who send spiders. Effectively, not having the robots.txt file conflicts with her statements in the text of the site and they should smack her down.
Have you tried calling into GoDaddy? Whenever there's an issue I can't resolve online, calling them produces great results. Try to lay off the 'you work for soul-less domain squatting evildoer company' when you ring in and just mention you'd tried to do a few transfers with no success. Their CS people will give you their name, an e-mail, and a way to get back in touch with them unless someone treats them like crap.
For domain management, their interface is great, especially if you have more than just a few domains. I have about 150 or so (no squatting, thank you) and basically just ignore everything about them except for the domain control panel.
If you just want to use DynDNS services, just point the domain's nameservers and you've got all the benefits without what has apparently been quite a hassle for you. I have transferred in and out of Godaddy well over 50 domain names and the only times I've had problems are with odd TLD extensions, usually because I don't have the right auth codes, and almost always from the other registrar, not GoDaddy.
This is assuming the usage habits are stored with that information, and then stripped for reporting, instead of anonomized and then stored.
I don't know if it is either way, just noting that it would be possible to stop being a customer and not have your information compromised with new managed if they've made a habit of storing it only after stripping user information, and some of the intrepid slashdotters may be able to figure that out from their privacy policy or some such.
So in an effort to make us a more gentle society, our newly elected leaders should force the likes of Chavez and others through MRI machines to confirm they're not altruistic enough and then lock them up in jail?
But of course, they can't do that unless their not really altrustic, as now we're causing them to make value judgements about altruism for one or many.
I suppose this is neatly tied up as long as we can selectively let a few of those people our of your jails. Maybe this guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252230/ in a redux of his role as 'the operative' would be sufficiently efficient at rounding up all these non-altrustic people. Then we'd have a nice civil place to live like here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/
Point being that being against the state is not just about being a con artist or working for yourself. Dissidents aren't always evil, and if I have to choose between splitting the last bit of food on a boat out at sea with just my family, or everyone and my family, I know that I'm not going to share with anyone other than my family.
Altrusim has it's limits for a reason, and i'd suspect that there's a body of subtle darwinian influence that contributes to our modern sense of 'social' selfishness.
I don't want to be juiced up to be nice all the time to everyone, regardless of if they deserve it or not.
Aren't there times when being altrustic is counter productive?
Unless everyone in the sample is altruistic, a single rogue can disrupt the process and from a society or organizations perspective, having the altruistic leaders would result in a net negative affect for your group.
I would very reluctantly vote into power a bloc of politicians who proved themselves to be utterly altruistic in a world like ours, notwithstanding any possible contributions we've made to that world by making it less safe for our leaders.
If my daughters boyfriend is slinking around the house at night he damn sure deserves a hole in the leg. Head...maybe not, but a good wounding injury to one boy now would go a long way towards establishing a nice fatherly defensive sheild around my daughter.
Just kidding of course, but you're right, thats always a concern with firearms. I've walked into a house late at night when I was visiting my girlfriend and actually had a shotgun pointed at me. Very unsettling, and I made sure not to let myself in quietly from then on out. It wasn't her father either...just a roomate. Awkward much?
Also, my mental picture of that gun and a bowl of cereal was not a kitchen table, more of a lab. I wouldn't leave a gun idly on a table any sooner than I would drive my family home drunk.
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Will somebody PLEASE think of the...prostitutes, dealers, and drug runners? I mean, they're really the heart and soul of our illicit underground, and if we don't save them from this sort of senseless abuse by our police, what does that say about the rest of us?
Keybank goes back 18 months, has multiple formats, and allows you to create and store labels that you can assign to an item (Income - type 1, Expense - type 2, Meals and Entertainment, etc) on the fly when it happens so 3 - 18 months later when you come back to the transactions, you don't have to wonder which of those transactions were write offs.
"However Google believes Abbott is the first state attorney general to open an antitrust review into the issue." Did they used Google search to determine this?
Ok, I think I understand. It's sort of a Golden Shower of nanocages that bathes the tumors in a reactive substance? Fun.
A poor, white, rural American FINALLY gets a job in this terrible economy, and we lock him up. A word of warning to all your crackers out there, give up hope now.
Tie it to sales, make it an after the fact 'copyright tax' and anyone that doesn't pay voids their copy rights.
I'll start laughing once I'm finished pinching off a new universe.
Personally, I think if nothing else, the smell is indeed QUITE spectacular and I don't know how he expects to pinch one off in a room full of observant scientists with no one noticing the utterly out of place voiding process.
Literally tho, since I'm sure these base are patented out the wazoo, they literally all do belong to the researchers...
Mod Parent up. The linked video is hot shit and dead on relevant, save for a likely cost differential.
Desirable feature? Seriously? I hate WMV....not fanatically, but the less of it I have on my system the better. I've persistently refused to allow it to 'update' automatically as every new version seems to include some extra level of DRM or god knows what that wreaks havoc with every other installed video app and codec on my laptop. The only reason I'm using 9 instead of 7 or 8 is because it force fed an update onto my system through another program and then windows refused to let it go away. When I finally get around to reinstalling xp, I'm happily going back to the earliest version I can muster. I've even shied away from things like the Amazon store because it requires the 'latest version' of Media Player to play it's garbage. It just seems unnecessary, and when you read stories about Netflix or Amazon or other programs choosing for you what you can and can't do with your own hardware it just feels wrong.
my 2cents
'Clearly,' you are onto something...
Sounds about right. Both of my two loss prevention supervisors were caught (by me) with their hands in the cookie jar, but because they had either turned off or turned away the video cameras, they weren't fired for weeks until they slipped up on stupid things like dress code or arriving late.
There was a PC tech at the Best Buy store where I worked who was involved in this kind of stuff. He'd have a friend bring in his'computer' - really just an empty case, to be worked on.
During the day, he'd go pick up items off the shelf that he wanted to get into his system....a hard drive here, a cd-rom drive there, a nice new video card. He'd get them while showing people who were looking for similar items and then not return them to the shelf. Then a quick hop to the back, slip open the plastic, remove the item, and drop some junk in there. Walk around the counter, reseal the item, send it back to the floor, and spend the rest of the day 'repairing' the box and configuring his new computer.
Of course, since he did this 'in' the store, everything looked legit when it went out to the floor, price tags, etc. Things with clear cases (like RAM) he just put inside the computer and walked out when he was ready to go.
Of course, this isn't a big surprise, Best Buy has huge problems with employee theft. In the time that I was working security, I busted more than 6 employees for theft...two of them were my own loss prevention supervisors. Loss Prevention is really there for the employees, the customers we couldn't really stop anyway (nor will we when they pull a knife or other shit out). Of course, both of those employees were 'let go' for minor infractions, but they were robbing the place blind. The first one had the balls to mount 'investigations' every time something went missing...interviewing everyone in his office. It's hard to keep the sheep safe when the shepherds are cooking them up every night.
I'm sorry, but the UK communications act is a crock of shit if it makes it illegial to turn on your laptop in a public place. My laptop bounces from router to router without any control or direction from me. Even if I wanted to tether with my phone, it will simply find a stronger connection and pow, suddenly I'm breaking the law. I call BS on this whole line of legal reasoning and suggest we burn the patent officers and the legal aids.
Wait...we just made trucks with frickin laser beams on their heads?
I think you're missing his point. Remotely hosting content opens people up to risks. He's going for the difference between outlook / thunderbird and gmail, and he makes a reasonable point. If my computer breaks down, I'm the fool who didn't back up. When a hosted solution goes down, everyone loses. It's not rocket science deduction he's doing, but it's still relevant to the overall point that Google goes down, service providers are inherently unreliable to some extent, and, as you said, life goes on. Unless it's me, and THEN I'm pissed.
https://account.bluerazor.com/gdshop/legal_agreeme nts/show_doc.asp?prog_id=bluerazor&app_hdr=0&pagei d=MEMBER_EULA
That part seems a bit draconian. I agree to let them charge me arbitrary fees for things like customer service? Yikes. But interesting, thanks for the heads up.
EK
It talks about language in the article, and how the verbiage was on the site. I think you're spot on, because there's no way the text on a site can be construed in that fashion. There are rules and requirements for determining if 'notice' is sufficient. The robots.txt file _is_ the language to use to post such as notice, and not understanding such measures doesn't excuse the woman's actions in suing company's who send spiders. Effectively, not having the robots.txt file conflicts with her statements in the text of the site and they should smack her down.
Have you tried calling into GoDaddy? Whenever there's an issue I can't resolve online, calling them produces great results. Try to lay off the 'you work for soul-less domain squatting evildoer company' when you ring in and just mention you'd tried to do a few transfers with no success. Their CS people will give you their name, an e-mail, and a way to get back in touch with them unless someone treats them like crap.
For domain management, their interface is great, especially if you have more than just a few domains. I have about 150 or so (no squatting, thank you) and basically just ignore everything about them except for the domain control panel.
If you just want to use DynDNS services, just point the domain's nameservers and you've got all the benefits without what has apparently been quite a hassle for you. I have transferred in and out of Godaddy well over 50 domain names and the only times I've had problems are with odd TLD extensions, usually because I don't have the right auth codes, and almost always from the other registrar, not GoDaddy.
Good luck
EK
Ya-Who?
This is assuming the usage habits are stored with that information, and then stripped for reporting, instead of anonomized and then stored.
I don't know if it is either way, just noting that it would be possible to stop being a customer and not have your information compromised with new managed if they've made a habit of storing it only after stripping user information, and some of the intrepid slashdotters may be able to figure that out from their privacy policy or some such.
So in an effort to make us a more gentle society, our newly elected leaders should force the likes of Chavez and others through MRI machines to confirm they're not altruistic enough and then lock them up in jail?
But of course, they can't do that unless their not really altrustic, as now we're causing them to make value judgements about altruism for one or many.
I suppose this is neatly tied up as long as we can selectively let a few of those people our of your jails. Maybe this guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252230/ in a redux of his role as 'the operative' would be sufficiently efficient at rounding up all these non-altrustic people. Then we'd have a nice civil place to live like here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/
Point being that being against the state is not just about being a con artist or working for yourself. Dissidents aren't always evil, and if I have to choose between splitting the last bit of food on a boat out at sea with just my family, or everyone and my family, I know that I'm not going to share with anyone other than my family.
Altrusim has it's limits for a reason, and i'd suspect that there's a body of subtle darwinian influence that contributes to our modern sense of 'social' selfishness.
I don't want to be juiced up to be nice all the time to everyone, regardless of if they deserve it or not.
Aren't there times when being altrustic is counter productive?
Unless everyone in the sample is altruistic, a single rogue can disrupt the process and from a society or organizations perspective, having the altruistic leaders would result in a net negative affect for your group.
I would very reluctantly vote into power a bloc of politicians who proved themselves to be utterly altruistic in a world like ours, notwithstanding any possible contributions we've made to that world by making it less safe for our leaders.
If my daughters boyfriend is slinking around the house at night he damn sure deserves a hole in the leg. Head...maybe not, but a good wounding injury to one boy now would go a long way towards establishing a nice fatherly defensive sheild around my daughter.
Just kidding of course, but you're right, thats always a concern with firearms. I've walked into a house late at night when I was visiting my girlfriend and actually had a shotgun pointed at me. Very unsettling, and I made sure not to let myself in quietly from then on out. It wasn't her father either...just a roomate. Awkward much?
Also, my mental picture of that gun and a bowl of cereal was not a kitchen table, more of a lab. I wouldn't leave a gun idly on a table any sooner than I would drive my family home drunk.
Heh..i agree. Besides, the Swiss have been at it for 700 years. I'd say that gives them a couple of hundred legs up on the competition.