Are you kidding? There's a hell of a lot more money in a TRUE paranormal ability than there is in exposing the false ones (after all, nobody likes the party pooper). Besides, even if one paranormal thing gets proven true, that by no means makes everything else paranormal true as well.
Why couldn't they add Firefox as a choice?
Still, if people do switch away from IE, it will be a good thing, considering how much tech support time is eaten up by spyware from IE.
So at what point is someone allowed to dismiss something as wacky b.s. without being being one of those evil "closed minded dogmatic scientists"?
Since this guy's electrical universe hypothesis is so clearly contradicted by observations, and the currently accepted theories are actually able to predict phenomena, I think it's safe to say that the former is wrong. New theories are supposed to explain things better than the old ones, not worse.
Don't forget that the jewelery market is driven by emotional and traditional factors. Your average bride-to-be doesn't care about the diamond's chemical properties; she wants a real diamond from a real mine.
Personally, I miss the days when they sent out 3.5 inch floppies. I never had to buy any new ones; I just formatted theirs and used them for everything.
Too bad that there's no getting around the O in cd-roms.
Even better, have them beam out virtual coupons. Either a simple "show the cashier this ad on your phone and get10% off!" or have the cash register be bluetooth enabled as well.
Spam is worse than junk mail.
With junk mail, it's the companies who have to pay for the paper, envelope, and postage. The more letters they send, the more money they have to pay. Plus they all clearly identify who sent it. The usps also is able to oversee the entire system (in the usa at least).
With spam, there is no material cost or postage. It costs just as much to send 100 emails as 1,000,000. there is anonymity; spoofed addresses, spam zombies, and open relays make covering one's tracks child's play. In addition, there's nobody you can complain to.
I'm well aware that most of you guys aren't scum. The problem is, specifically with internet advertising, that a few bad apples are enough to destroy a consumer's trust.
For example, even if 90% of online ads are normal banner ads, the other 10% consists of animated, noise making animations, embedded ads that pop up over the web page, popups, popunders, flash based junk, javascript using windows that are nearly impossible to close, and even things that use activeX exploits to automatically install spyware on your system.
Once someone has encountered garbage like that, he or she is going to be blocking all internet ads, whether they're benign or not. Legitimate ads thus become collateral damage.
Ads in other mediums can't cause as much harm, but infectious, annoying advertising jingles that play over and over again in your head and magazine/newspaper ads that look like normal articles mean that advertisers will need to differentiate themselves from the scum in order for people to not be hostile to them.
A different time? Have you never heard of PT Barnum, pyramid schemes, snake oil, and patent medicine?
Or on this matter specifically: "This type of scam takes different forms of disguises and dates back to 1588 where it was known as the 'Spanish Prisoner' scam."
From http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/amazing_offers /frauds_hid.asp
or see:
http://www.answers.com/topic/spanish-prisoner
While I know there are some old timers out there, I don't think any were around before the 16th century.
More than a few members of older generations are so baffled by computers that there's little you can teach that they'll be able to understand. Best thing to do is add passive protection, like a hosts file, antispyware ap with real time protection, a firewall, etc.
" In January, the Salt Lake City-based company changed the monitoring responsibilities to its marketing team."
As we all know, marketing is a bastion of honesty and objectivity, right?
You can always rent games, which are available from every video rental store that I have ever seen, or sign up for one of those online rental sites. Is that so hard?
If Blizzard is smart, then they'll have backups of all characters that are periodically made and saved separately. Thus all they need to do is load the backup from a few days ago, or last week or whatever. Sure, people will lose whatever they did between now and when the backup was made, but the economy will be saved, and people will bitch and moan a bit, then continue playing.
Stan Jones, a Libertarian candidate for senator in Montana, turned his skin bluish-gray from doing this exact treatment: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2297471. stm (pic included)
The modern health care system may suck, but the science it's based on is more reliable than quackery like this.
I personally believe that there isn't a correct interpretation of Evangelion; instead the creators just took a normal giant robot anime and threw in a random mishmash of religious symbols so people would think it's profound.
On bad spyware infestations, I've sometimes used 4 or 5 antispyware programs, each of which finds stuff the others don't. There's so much spyware out there that using just one program is rarely enough to catch everything.
I just heard that Microsoft has announced the creation of a new program, called "Consumer Protection Genuine Advantage Validator". In the near future users will have to have their activeX Genuine Advantage software confirmed to be valid and unpirated before it will let them confirm their windows installation as valid and unpirated.
These marketers should try looking at it from the consumer's point of view, who ask: why should I let you take up even a single byte of space on my hard drive? What benefit do I get from letting advertisers leave their mark on my system?
If they want better results with their ads, then they should make some sort of an effort to display them on sites that are relevant to what they're selling. It is not my problem that my behavior is making life difficult for their business.
Another important fact here is that internet advertisers have already used up all of people's trust and goodwill towards them long long ago. We are now in the age of spyware, adware, popups, popunders, and all sorts of other garbage. No offense to advertising companies, as I know they're not all scum, but there are more than enough bad apples in the industry for me to mistrust them all. Thus I will not let them put anything, even a harmless txt file on my computer (and I'm cynical enough to be paranoid about some new windows/IE exploit that can use cookies to install crap on my computer).
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Are you kidding? There's a hell of a lot more money in a TRUE paranormal ability than there is in exposing the false ones (after all, nobody likes the party pooper). Besides, even if one paranormal thing gets proven true, that by no means makes everything else paranormal true as well.
Why couldn't they add Firefox as a choice? Still, if people do switch away from IE, it will be a good thing, considering how much tech support time is eaten up by spyware from IE.
So at what point is someone allowed to dismiss something as wacky b.s. without being being one of those evil "closed minded dogmatic scientists"? Since this guy's electrical universe hypothesis is so clearly contradicted by observations, and the currently accepted theories are actually able to predict phenomena, I think it's safe to say that the former is wrong. New theories are supposed to explain things better than the old ones, not worse.
So it's not exactly safe mode, it's more like "safe mode with networking".
Don't forget that the jewelery market is driven by emotional and traditional factors. Your average bride-to-be doesn't care about the diamond's chemical properties; she wants a real diamond from a real mine.
Personally, I miss the days when they sent out 3.5 inch floppies. I never had to buy any new ones; I just formatted theirs and used them for everything. Too bad that there's no getting around the O in cd-roms.
Even better, have them beam out virtual coupons. Either a simple "show the cashier this ad on your phone and get10% off!" or have the cash register be bluetooth enabled as well.
Spam is worse than junk mail. With junk mail, it's the companies who have to pay for the paper, envelope, and postage. The more letters they send, the more money they have to pay. Plus they all clearly identify who sent it. The usps also is able to oversee the entire system (in the usa at least). With spam, there is no material cost or postage. It costs just as much to send 100 emails as 1,000,000. there is anonymity; spoofed addresses, spam zombies, and open relays make covering one's tracks child's play. In addition, there's nobody you can complain to.
I'm well aware that most of you guys aren't scum. The problem is, specifically with internet advertising, that a few bad apples are enough to destroy a consumer's trust. For example, even if 90% of online ads are normal banner ads, the other 10% consists of animated, noise making animations, embedded ads that pop up over the web page, popups, popunders, flash based junk, javascript using windows that are nearly impossible to close, and even things that use activeX exploits to automatically install spyware on your system. Once someone has encountered garbage like that, he or she is going to be blocking all internet ads, whether they're benign or not. Legitimate ads thus become collateral damage. Ads in other mediums can't cause as much harm, but infectious, annoying advertising jingles that play over and over again in your head and magazine/newspaper ads that look like normal articles mean that advertisers will need to differentiate themselves from the scum in order for people to not be hostile to them.
A different time? Have you never heard of PT Barnum, pyramid schemes, snake oil, and patent medicine? Or on this matter specifically: "This type of scam takes different forms of disguises and dates back to 1588 where it was known as the 'Spanish Prisoner' scam." From http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/amazing_offers /frauds_hid.asp
or see:
http://www.answers.com/topic/spanish-prisoner
While I know there are some old timers out there, I don't think any were around before the 16th century.
CWS is a large family of adware/spyware and numerous variants. Most likely this is a recently discovered version.
More than a few members of older generations are so baffled by computers that there's little you can teach that they'll be able to understand. Best thing to do is add passive protection, like a hosts file, antispyware ap with real time protection, a firewall, etc.
A Beowulf cluster? This is slashdot, most posters would be lucky to be involved with a dual processor.
" In January, the Salt Lake City-based company changed the monitoring responsibilities to its marketing team." As we all know, marketing is a bastion of honesty and objectivity, right?
You can always rent games, which are available from every video rental store that I have ever seen, or sign up for one of those online rental sites. Is that so hard?
So they're tying the SOD colors to the terror alert system?
Just remember that you don't want to claw your way to the top, only to be stuck working 20 hours a day on "Barbie's Fashion Adventure."
If Blizzard is smart, then they'll have backups of all characters that are periodically made and saved separately. Thus all they need to do is load the backup from a few days ago, or last week or whatever. Sure, people will lose whatever they did between now and when the backup was made, but the economy will be saved, and people will bitch and moan a bit, then continue playing.
Stan Jones, a Libertarian candidate for senator in Montana, turned his skin bluish-gray from doing this exact treatment: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2297471. stm (pic included)
The modern health care system may suck, but the science it's based on is more reliable than quackery like this.
Most of the people still running windows 98 are not computer literate enough to be using a firewall anyway, I'd imagine.
I personally believe that there isn't a correct interpretation of Evangelion; instead the creators just took a normal giant robot anime and threw in a random mishmash of religious symbols so people would think it's profound.
I can think of more than a few benefits of having amazing memorization abilities. For example, you'd never need to buy another pad of post-it notes.
On bad spyware infestations, I've sometimes used 4 or 5 antispyware programs, each of which finds stuff the others don't. There's so much spyware out there that using just one program is rarely enough to catch everything.
I just heard that Microsoft has announced the creation of a new program, called "Consumer Protection Genuine Advantage Validator". In the near future users will have to have their activeX Genuine Advantage software confirmed to be valid and unpirated before it will let them confirm their windows installation as valid and unpirated.
These marketers should try looking at it from the consumer's point of view, who ask: why should I let you take up even a single byte of space on my hard drive? What benefit do I get from letting advertisers leave their mark on my system? If they want better results with their ads, then they should make some sort of an effort to display them on sites that are relevant to what they're selling. It is not my problem that my behavior is making life difficult for their business. Another important fact here is that internet advertisers have already used up all of people's trust and goodwill towards them long long ago. We are now in the age of spyware, adware, popups, popunders, and all sorts of other garbage. No offense to advertising companies, as I know they're not all scum, but there are more than enough bad apples in the industry for me to mistrust them all. Thus I will not let them put anything, even a harmless txt file on my computer (and I'm cynical enough to be paranoid about some new windows/IE exploit that can use cookies to install crap on my computer).