The ONLY reason 9/11 was successful was because the public's expectation of a hijacking was a free side-trip to Cuba. Requiring ANY form of ID is not going to make travel safer. Requiring explosives and firearms checks do, and those requirements were in place long before 9/11.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work very well anymore. My email address has been listed on USENET as nospam@madocowain.com for a while, but it is a valid working address. Sometime in the last 6-8 months, my spam volume went from 1-2 per month to a couple hundred per month - I think that as spam botnets become more prevalent, we'll find the spammers can afford to blanket even nospam email addresses, on the off chance they get a valid hit.
After visiting the article linked to in TFA, I'm amazed this kid got off so lightly!
"On Wednesday morning, the judge ruled that Lennon should be subject to a curfew, which means he must stay at home between the hours of 12.30am and 7am on weekdays, and between 12.30am and 10am on weekends. If he breaks this curfew, he risks a more serious sentence.
The curfew has been timed so as not to interfere with Lennon's work at a local cinema. The judge said it was a "happy coincidence" that it will end the day before Lennon starts college in September. "
and
"The prosecution dropped its demand that Lennon should pay costs amounting to £29,000, which arose from his attack on Domestic & General Group in which 5 million emails crashed its servers."
So not only did his spamming threaten the recipients, it crashed the company's email servers, stopping legitimate, business-related email from reaching the same.
The judge slaps his wrist and grounds him except for work? No fines, and it drops just before he leaves for college.
From the other stories I've been reading on Slashdot, I thought the knee-jerk British reaction would be to slap an ASBO on his ass and call him "Pip"?
Which type of ruling is the exception to the rule - leniency for first-time offenders, or throwing the book at them? All I ever have read about in the US regarding computer-related offenses is hard time in pound-you-in-the-ass prison.
She was the winner of the 2005 GenCon costume contest. The wings do extend and move independently of each other. Going from memory from the description at the contest that year, she spent several years working on it. The framework is aluminum and the feathers were painted peacock. Here's a link to a picture from the con floor that year:
UNISYS is a practicioner of this system. They say there's a number that is the mean for that particular position, and base all raise percentages from that.
So, if they bring you in at 60% of the mean, you will receive a larger raise each year than someone who is at 80% of mean. You will never exceed the mean, and your raises will eventually be less than the current rate of inflation.
Given that UNISYS does not give bonuses (well, not to the 'little people') and their raise percentages tend to be small - my 60% means the raise this year will be less than 5% - it is only due to the weak tech economy in my area (Indianapolis - anyone need a Tier2 UNIX Admin?) that they can get or keep employees.
I was confronted with a cell-phone that had a tip calculator just a couple of button-presses away. I was both envious and appalled. Envious because I wished I had one of those when I was working out how to calculate a 15% tip on the fly, and appalled because damnit, if I had to learn it, why shouldn't other people? Lazy bastards!
Why would anyone spend ANY amount of time on-line building a virtual spaceship, unless it's with the express purpose of loading it up with thousands of Kill-O-Matic bots and hurling it at some poor unsuspecting planet populated by other on-line players? Or kittens, for that matter?
Why deprive yourself of Sony's products without need? Simply buy them used. They don't get a red cent from you, and you can still enjoy the products.
I planned on buying a new PS2 after the PS3 came out and prices dropped, but this was the last straw. I'll buy a PS2 used, along with used games, along with my music CDs.
I've enjoyed following the follies of MS-owned Hotmail for years. Remember when they tried to switch from Sun to NT servers? Ah, good times. I've been dissatisfied with the speed and interface of Hotmail for some time. First, they stopped bringing you to your Inbox and made you stop at a splash screen with more ads on it. Then, the pages became slower to load, probably so that you would be forced to look at an ad for a longer period of time. Now, they want to force me to use IE to read my e-mail, unless I want to pony up another $20/month to use POP3 retrieval methods.
Now that most ISPs have a web interface that allows you to read email when you are at a foreign PC, or you can use USB drives to load a browser, the most compelling reason to use Hotmail or Yahoo! or Gmail is... storage? Thanks, but I think I can live with Comcast's web email instead.. it's one of the few things they do right.
The standard means of controlling your "guy" in PC games (no mouse) was to use the arrow keys on the number pad. If you wanted to play a 2-player game that allowed both players to play at the same time, the WASD configuration was often the player 2 control set. Of course, back then it was WAXD, and S was used for jump or fire. Sadly, I don't remember which games specifically used this. Hell, it might have been on my C-64 for that matter.
Once the arrow keys came into their own, I began using those for movement and never looked back.
My HP Jornada 565 battery is removeable. It's the reason I bought their brand of PPC in the first place. This way, I could have a regular 8 hour battery, an extended 16 or 22-hour battery, plus a few of those fuel-cell emergency spares they sell.
Couldn't get into the True Dungeon event, so we tried the True Dungeon Tavern. $3 to get in to have the privilege of buying a $10 soda in a plastic "collector's cup". Thanks, I'll go to the Claddagh and have 3 Guiness instead!
GenCon stopped having good performers for open parties somewhere around the time Wizards of the Coast bought TSR. After that, something seemed to die, it wasn't nearly as good after that. The last few open parties have had DJs or specialty bands only 30 people have heard of.
Now, the media guests are getting a little thin at GenCon Indy. Last year they had a LOT and they were INTERESTING. This year, only a last-minute addition of BSG stars saved the roster from being a complete loss. I'm really interested to see how GenCon SoCal's media list looks, as there is speculation that SoCal will get the most attention as time goes on. GenCon in the Midwest may be nothing more than a memory by 2007-2008.
Did you bother reading my post before hitting 'Reply'? I said quite plainly I don't snoop, and it's not possible to "not notice" since the output of anti-virus and spyware-removal programs show paths and filenames. If you "don't notice", you're suffering from a failure to convert short-term memory to long-term or you're simply failing to do your job properly.
I've done some PC tech support work on the side over the years. I'm aware of the many ways files can get onto a PC without the owner's knowledge or consent. I'm also aware that there's some things I simply don't want to know about people. I don't have any intention of browsing through caches or looking at their browser/document history. However, you can't avoid seeing at least some portion of a user's directory structure when you're updating their software, installing drivers or removing spyware.
Norton Antivirus and AdAware will show directory and file names as they are being scanned, and the locations of files that are infected. If I have to open a browser and type in an URL, if AutoComplete is turned on I may see some interesting things as well. If I have to delete infected files, I may see actual photos if the Explorer settings show thumbnails instead of filenames by default. I'm exposed to a lot of potentially damaging information just by sitting at the keyboard. Assuming something grabs my attention during my work, I may have to make a decision whether PeopleIveKilled.doc warrants further investigation or if a folder called toddlersex could possibly have an innocous meaning. I have to weigh my customer's right to privacy versus my conscience.
So I ask my customers, "Don't put me in that position." Remove anything you wouldn't want your wife or daughter or dear sainted Aunt Gertrude to see. I won't go looking for anything but if I run across it, and it violates the laws of the land, I have no choice but to report it. It's better solution than to stare into the face of our current society's vices and let them pass.
I imagine less scrupulous techs could use things they found as blackmail material to extort a larger fee, or create a sub-service where they would charge exorbitant amounts for data-retrieval but with complete privacy guaranteed.
Why haven't we heard of a case where a computer owner finds pr0n on his system then accuses the PC tech who worked on it last of putting it there?
"That cost is rolled up into the price of service. If the cost of raw materials goes up, the cost of the service goes up."
No, it isn't, and no, it doesn't. UPS and FedEx are charging as much as the market will bear. If their costs go down, they make more profit, and if their costs go up they make less. If FedEx and UPS choose to give away free boxes for their own reasons, that is between them and the people that take advantage of it. It doesn't effect other customers one bit.
Sorry, I don't agree. FedEx and USPS "giving" away their boxes simply means that instead of breaking out the cost of their boxes as a separate fee the customer has to pay, they've rolled that cost into their overall cost of doing business. No more money is being lost or made by the entity, it's an accounting trick to fool the gullible.
For example, I don't charge my customers packaging fees because frankly, it doesn't cost me enough to get a free box and drop the item in and seal it for me to care. If FedEx starts charging for boxes, my costs increase, which I then pass along to my customer in higher prices. I have a choice not to pass price increases along, but not at the expense of my bottom line. Add pressure from shareholders to trim away as much fat as possible, and mix in other 'excuses' like rising fuel costs, and stir.
How free is your free box now?
I had the same argument with my friend about the 'free doorknobs' in his newly-built home.
I'll give you one example: if prices were strictly linked to costs, then cans of soda-pop would cost more in states where the distributors and retailers have to take a deposit and then refund it when the customer returns the can. Clearly, it costs them something to process and keep account of those cans coming back to the retailer and then back to the distributor, but the prices are not any higher.
Other posters have touched on the fallacy of this example, so I'll leave it alone.
Water, as fuel for the spacecraft and consumables for the astronauts, would be one source of shielding. As for the power source, yes nuclear is an option, but we can throw it into orbit in pieces, assemble it in space, attach it via tow cable a few miles behind the ship so no shielding, no problem.. right?
Check out the Killer List of Videogames - http://www.klov.com/ . It is a pretty comprehensive list of arcade games, I highly recommend it. Lots of pictures and descriptions of gameplay.
Not only did they not mention TA (which was definitely not released in 19*88* else I'd have never graduated college) but they totally skipped M.U.L.E., which was the grand-daddy of RTS games.
Watching the extras on the Firefly DVD, I see it pointed out that this series was the first to use the "documentary-style" camera work, to this extent anyway, in CG. Seeing as how BSG uses this now I would say they may have been influenced by Flrefly in some small way..
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The ONLY reason 9/11 was successful was because the public's expectation of a hijacking was a free side-trip to Cuba. Requiring ANY form of ID is not going to make travel safer. Requiring explosives and firearms checks do, and those requirements were in place long before 9/11.
Thanks so much, I have been having this issue and just figured it was my annoying Lenovo laptop's fault.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work very well anymore. My email address has been listed on USENET as nospam@madocowain.com for a while, but it is a valid working address. Sometime in the last 6-8 months, my spam volume went from 1-2 per month to a couple hundred per month - I think that as spam botnets become more prevalent, we'll find the spammers can afford to blanket even nospam email addresses, on the off chance they get a valid hit.
After visiting the article linked to in TFA, I'm amazed this kid got off so lightly!
"On Wednesday morning, the judge ruled that Lennon should be subject to a curfew, which means he must stay at home between the hours of 12.30am and 7am on weekdays, and between 12.30am and 10am on weekends. If he breaks this curfew, he risks a more serious sentence.
The curfew has been timed so as not to interfere with Lennon's work at a local cinema. The judge said it was a "happy coincidence" that it will end the day before Lennon starts college in September. "
and
"The prosecution dropped its demand that Lennon should pay costs amounting to £29,000, which arose from his attack on Domestic & General Group in which 5 million emails crashed its servers."
So not only did his spamming threaten the recipients, it crashed the company's email servers, stopping legitimate, business-related email from reaching the same.
The judge slaps his wrist and grounds him except for work? No fines, and it drops just before he leaves for college.
From the other stories I've been reading on Slashdot, I thought the knee-jerk British reaction would be to slap an ASBO on his ass and call him "Pip"?
Which type of ruling is the exception to the rule - leniency for first-time offenders, or throwing the book at them? All I ever have read about in the US regarding computer-related offenses is hard time in pound-you-in-the-ass prison.
She was the winner of the 2005 GenCon costume contest. The wings do extend and move independently of each other. Going from memory from the description at the contest that year, she spent several years working on it. The framework is aluminum and the feathers were painted peacock. Here's a link to a picture from the con floor that year:
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http://www.hunterandlori.com/photos/2006GenConFly
UNISYS is a practicioner of this system. They say there's a number that is the mean for that particular position, and base all raise percentages from that.
So, if they bring you in at 60% of the mean, you will receive a larger raise each year than someone who is at 80% of mean. You will never exceed the mean, and your raises will eventually be less than the current rate of inflation.
Given that UNISYS does not give bonuses (well, not to the 'little people') and their raise percentages tend to be small - my 60% means the raise this year will be less than 5% - it is only due to the weak tech economy in my area (Indianapolis - anyone need a Tier2 UNIX Admin?) that they can get or keep employees.
Actually..
I was confronted with a cell-phone that had a tip calculator just a couple of button-presses away. I was both envious and appalled. Envious because I wished I had one of those when I was working out how to calculate a 15% tip on the fly, and appalled because damnit, if I had to learn it, why shouldn't other people? Lazy bastards!
Why would anyone spend ANY amount of time on-line building a virtual spaceship, unless it's with the express purpose of loading it up with thousands of Kill-O-Matic bots and hurling it at some poor unsuspecting planet populated by other on-line players? Or kittens, for that matter?
M.O.
http://www.madocowain.com/
http://www.playmaille.com/
Why deprive yourself of Sony's products without need? Simply buy them used. They don't get a red cent from you, and you can still enjoy the products.
I planned on buying a new PS2 after the PS3 came out and prices dropped, but this was the last straw. I'll buy a PS2 used, along with used games, along with my music CDs.
2. Play Xbox until deadline for "RTM" arrives
3. Deny and involvement with manager's pet project.
4. Laugh uproariously as former managers are escorted off the premises by security for their complete and utter failure to meet deadline
Step 5: Profit!
How many is a Brazilian?
Thanks, I'll be here all day.
I've enjoyed following the follies of MS-owned Hotmail for years. Remember when they tried to switch from Sun to NT servers? Ah, good times. I've been dissatisfied with the speed and interface of Hotmail for some time. First, they stopped bringing you to your Inbox and made you stop at a splash screen with more ads on it. Then, the pages became slower to load, probably so that you would be forced to look at an ad for a longer period of time. Now, they want to force me to use IE to read my e-mail, unless I want to pony up another $20/month to use POP3 retrieval methods.
Now that most ISPs have a web interface that allows you to read email when you are at a foreign PC, or you can use USB drives to load a browser, the most compelling reason to use Hotmail or Yahoo! or Gmail is... storage? Thanks, but I think I can live with Comcast's web email instead.. it's one of the few things they do right.
So why is this news today, Sept. 2005?
The standard means of controlling your "guy" in PC games (no mouse) was to use the arrow keys on the number pad. If you wanted to play a 2-player game that allowed both players to play at the same time, the WASD configuration was often the player 2 control set. Of course, back then it was WAXD, and S was used for jump or fire. Sadly, I don't remember which games specifically used this. Hell, it might have been on my C-64 for that matter.
Once the arrow keys came into their own, I began using those for movement and never looked back.
An appropriate comment:
"Vivian!! Eat the telly!!"
My HP Jornada 565 battery is removeable. It's the reason I bought their brand of PPC in the first place. This way, I could have a regular 8 hour battery, an extended 16 or 22-hour battery, plus a few of those fuel-cell emergency spares they sell.
Couldn't get into the True Dungeon event, so we tried the True Dungeon Tavern. $3 to get in to have the privilege of buying a $10 soda in a plastic "collector's cup". Thanks, I'll go to the Claddagh and have 3 Guiness instead!
GenCon stopped having good performers for open parties somewhere around the time Wizards of the Coast bought TSR. After that, something seemed to die, it wasn't nearly as good after that. The last few open parties have had DJs or specialty bands only 30 people have heard of.
Now, the media guests are getting a little thin at GenCon Indy. Last year they had a LOT and they were INTERESTING. This year, only a last-minute addition of BSG stars saved the roster from being a complete loss. I'm really interested to see how GenCon SoCal's media list looks, as there is speculation that SoCal will get the most attention as time goes on. GenCon in the Midwest may be nothing more than a memory by 2007-2008.
Did you bother reading my post before hitting 'Reply'? I said quite plainly I don't snoop, and it's not possible to "not notice" since the output of anti-virus and spyware-removal programs show paths and filenames. If you "don't notice", you're suffering from a failure to convert short-term memory to long-term or you're simply failing to do your job properly.
I've done some PC tech support work on the side over the years. I'm aware of the many ways files can get onto a PC without the owner's knowledge or consent. I'm also aware that there's some things I simply don't want to know about people. I don't have any intention of browsing through caches or looking at their browser/document history. However, you can't avoid seeing at least some portion of a user's directory structure when you're updating their software, installing drivers or removing spyware.
Norton Antivirus and AdAware will show directory and file names as they are being scanned, and the locations of files that are infected. If I have to open a browser and type in an URL, if AutoComplete is turned on I may see some interesting things as well. If I have to delete infected files, I may see actual photos if the Explorer settings show thumbnails instead of filenames by default. I'm exposed to a lot of potentially damaging information just by sitting at the keyboard. Assuming something grabs my attention during my work, I may have to make a decision whether PeopleIveKilled.doc warrants further investigation or if a folder called toddlersex could possibly have an innocous meaning. I have to weigh my customer's right to privacy versus my conscience.
So I ask my customers, "Don't put me in that position." Remove anything you wouldn't want your wife or daughter or dear sainted Aunt Gertrude to see. I won't go looking for anything but if I run across it, and it violates the laws of the land, I have no choice but to report it. It's better solution than to stare into the face of our current society's vices and let them pass.
I imagine less scrupulous techs could use things they found as blackmail material to extort a larger fee, or create a sub-service where they would charge exorbitant amounts for data-retrieval but with complete privacy guaranteed.
Why haven't we heard of a case where a computer owner finds pr0n on his system then accuses the PC tech who worked on it last of putting it there?
No, it isn't, and no, it doesn't. UPS and FedEx are charging as much as the market will bear. If their costs go down, they make more profit, and if their costs go up they make less. If FedEx and UPS choose to give away free boxes for their own reasons, that is between them and the people that take advantage of it. It doesn't effect other customers one bit.
Sorry, I don't agree. FedEx and USPS "giving" away their boxes simply means that instead of breaking out the cost of their boxes as a separate fee the customer has to pay, they've rolled that cost into their overall cost of doing business. No more money is being lost or made by the entity, it's an accounting trick to fool the gullible.
For example, I don't charge my customers packaging fees because frankly, it doesn't cost me enough to get a free box and drop the item in and seal it for me to care. If FedEx starts charging for boxes, my costs increase, which I then pass along to my customer in higher prices. I have a choice not to pass price increases along, but not at the expense of my bottom line. Add pressure from shareholders to trim away as much fat as possible, and mix in other 'excuses' like rising fuel costs, and stir.
How free is your free box now?
I had the same argument with my friend about the 'free doorknobs' in his newly-built home.
I'll give you one example: if prices were strictly linked to costs, then cans of soda-pop would cost more in states where the distributors and retailers have to take a deposit and then refund it when the customer returns the can. Clearly, it costs them something to process and keep account of those cans coming back to the retailer and then back to the distributor, but the prices are not any higher.
Other posters have touched on the fallacy of this example, so I'll leave it alone.
Water, as fuel for the spacecraft and consumables for the astronauts, would be one source of shielding. As for the power source, yes nuclear is an option, but we can throw it into orbit in pieces, assemble it in space, attach it via tow cable a few miles behind the ship so no shielding, no problem .. right?
Check out the Killer List of Videogames - http://www.klov.com/ . It is a pretty comprehensive list of arcade games, I highly recommend it. Lots of pictures and descriptions of gameplay.
M.O.
http://www.madocowain.com/
http://www.playmaille.com/
Not only did they not mention TA (which was definitely not released in 19*88* else I'd have never graduated college) but they totally skipped M.U.L.E., which was the grand-daddy of RTS games.
Watching the extras on the Firefly DVD, I see it pointed out that this series was the first to use the "documentary-style" camera work, to this extent anyway, in CG. Seeing as how BSG uses this now I would say they may have been influenced by Flrefly in some small way..
M.O.