The first message was was listed in the the New York classifieds. Now it is possible the author simply placed it there for obscurity reasons, but it could also be that he/she was targetting someone who resides specifically in New York. Also, area code 212 is in New York City, which could be so their contact in New York wouldn't have to dial long distance to reach it.
The second message was in the San Francisco classifieds, and there too the area code, 415, of the number matches with the city. It could be that the author of the message is trying to make it easier on their contacts in those specific areas, as dialing local does not leave nearly as much of a trace as dialing long distance.
These games would be on the same prestige as the Olympics, but it would have things that require only mental/reflex skill. While the Olympics is about physical endurance, performance and ability, the games would have things like pi-memorization, videogame contests, mental arithmatic, pattern recognition contests, etc.
Vista is Raising the Bar for computer hardware. With higher spec computers flooding the market, I'm looking forward to cheaper components. With 1GB of Ram becoming the norm, imagine the price of those 512MB/256MB sticks:)
In russia, corruption is still rampent, albeit not as visible though. Assuming this "Pharmamaster" spammer was a top cheese, he probably already had some sort of connection with the ISP, as the ISP would have not been too keen to allow a bigtime spammer without some sort of monitary payoff.
Email is simply a sped-up version of the old fashion hand-written letter. Yes, you coul tell some of the emotions fo the person by the handwriting, but really words on a page are not new, and the issues with it are stil the same. The only new dimension of it is the speed and ease with which it is passed from one person to the next.
It is true that there are definitally puppet strings that the government can pull on Qwest. However, Qwest is still its own company, and if they decide absolutely not to share it, there will be repercussions would not go unknown. The government mysteriously arresting Qwest employees for refusing "classified" orders would not go unnoticed.
Looking at this comment I found, the author makes a good arguement: If the light sabre were hot enough to easily melt stuff, wouldn't it radiate so much heat that it would burn the user?
My always-on connection to the internet has been a major help when I need to get to a website in a bind, and I don't have to wait 3 minutes for a modem to dial in to an ISP, and then wait for some page to slowly load. Also my cell phone has proved invaluable in situations where I would have been stuck otherwise.
But along with that, the old tale of telemarketers and charity seekers calling at dinner time is still a pain (even if you have caller ID, it still is annoying to have the phone ring at such times unecessarily).
Seriously, though, I can see where the Attorney's office would be upset about someone taking legal memos from a law office. I mean, it wasn't a Diebold memo, TFA said it was a memo between two of Diebold's lawyers, and that is the property of the law office.
On another note, it seems that with all the "errors", faulty machines and mysterious voting numbers, uncertified changes 1 week before the election, etc., I still personally go with my first statement.
"Osama" and "bidladen" are still banned from usernames. Their explination as trying to qwell "hate crimes" seems very onesided, as they still allow usernames like "Hitlerhatesjews". I don't see why they think only hate crimes happen with Muslims. I mean anti-semitism is still as much a hate crime as any other.
It would seem that jumping headlong into Nuclear energy will get us into BIG problems with Nuclear waste. Where would we put it? I mean yes we can burry it down a mine shaft and guard it 24/7, but eventually we would need to create more and more spaces to put that shit, and it doesn't NOT go away anytime soon (can anyone say 10,000 years?).
I ment to say that such technologies like PHP on the server side have taken out the need for ActiveX in formatting webpages. Even though ActiveX is client-side, it could change the way a website looked.
From my point of view, the whole ActiveX thing in IE should be taken out. In today's world, ActiveX does have a couple of niche uses, but the Internet by far has left it behind as a old technology. Technologies/Techniques like Flash, Javascript, AJAX, PHP, browser extensions and the rest can do a lot of what ActiveX could do, and much more securely. ActiveX in my view is a weak link that is asking for viruses.
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The first message was was listed in the the New York classifieds. Now it is possible the author simply placed it there for obscurity reasons, but it could also be that he/she was targetting someone who resides specifically in New York. Also, area code 212 is in New York City, which could be so their contact in New York wouldn't have to dial long distance to reach it.
The second message was in the San Francisco classifieds, and there too the area code, 415, of the number matches with the city. It could be that the author of the message is trying to make it easier on their contacts in those specific areas, as dialing local does not leave nearly as much of a trace as dialing long distance.
These games would be on the same prestige as the Olympics, but it would have things that require only mental/reflex skill. While the Olympics is about physical endurance, performance and ability, the games would have things like pi-memorization, videogame contests, mental arithmatic, pattern recognition contests, etc.
Vista is Raising the Bar for computer hardware. With higher spec computers flooding the market, I'm looking forward to cheaper components. With 1GB of Ram becoming the norm, imagine the price of those 512MB/256MB sticks :)
In russia, corruption is still rampent, albeit not as visible though. Assuming this "Pharmamaster" spammer was a top cheese, he probably already had some sort of connection with the ISP, as the ISP would have not been too keen to allow a bigtime spammer without some sort of monitary payoff.
Email is simply a sped-up version of the old fashion hand-written letter. Yes, you coul tell some of the emotions fo the person by the handwriting, but really words on a page are not new, and the issues with it are stil the same. The only new dimension of it is the speed and ease with which it is passed from one person to the next.
Do they make a Nintencat the requires catnip before you can pass?
It is true that there are definitally puppet strings that the government can pull on Qwest. However, Qwest is still its own company, and if they decide absolutely not to share it, there will be repercussions would not go unknown. The government mysteriously arresting Qwest employees for refusing "classified" orders would not go unnoticed.
When ET phones home, we can finally have definitive proof of alien presence here on earth!
here I come! Down you filthy Verizon, AT&T (aka SBC) and BellSouth dogs!
Monsieur ScuttleMonkey!
The first 1 sentence article I have seen in a while.
Looking at this comment I found, the author makes a good arguement: If the light sabre were hot enough to easily melt stuff, wouldn't it radiate so much heat that it would burn the user?
I really wish it was more along the lines of 731 million dollars, which hynix memory is paying for its price fixing.
My always-on connection to the internet has been a major help when I need to get to a website in a bind, and I don't have to wait 3 minutes for a modem to dial in to an ISP, and then wait for some page to slowly load. Also my cell phone has proved invaluable in situations where I would have been stuck otherwise.
But along with that, the old tale of telemarketers and charity seekers calling at dinner time is still a pain (even if you have caller ID, it still is annoying to have the phone ring at such times unecessarily).
CAN it convert medical mumbo-jumbo into english?
Seriously, though, I can see where the Attorney's office would be upset about someone taking legal memos from a law office. I mean, it wasn't a Diebold memo, TFA said it was a memo between two of Diebold's lawyers, and that is the property of the law office.
On another note, it seems that with all the "errors", faulty machines and mysterious voting numbers, uncertified changes 1 week before the election, etc., I still personally go with my first statement.
If black projects cant get funding in public view, they work behind the scenes and find money elsewhere.
Are they going to digitize stuff that is than reclassified and will they KEEP it digitized, or will they fall to the pressures of the CIA?
I would LOVE to have your cookie :) But, just so long it isn't one of those that last til 2035, please. Those are wayyyy too tough on my teeth...
"Osama" and "bidladen" are still banned from usernames. Their explination as trying to qwell "hate crimes" seems very onesided, as they still allow usernames like "Hitlerhatesjews". I don't see why they think only hate crimes happen with Muslims. I mean anti-semitism is still as much a hate crime as any other.
Um, seeing that with the recent state of the space shuttles, I wouldn't risk exploding a 100 ton dirty bomb 60 miles above the Earth.
It would seem that jumping headlong into Nuclear energy will get us into BIG problems with Nuclear waste. Where would we put it? I mean yes we can burry it down a mine shaft and guard it 24/7, but eventually we would need to create more and more spaces to put that shit, and it doesn't NOT go away anytime soon (can anyone say 10,000 years?).
"I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?"
I ment to say that such technologies like PHP on the server side have taken out the need for ActiveX in formatting webpages. Even though ActiveX is client-side, it could change the way a website looked.
From my point of view, the whole ActiveX thing in IE should be taken out. In today's world, ActiveX does have a couple of niche uses, but the Internet by far has left it behind as a old technology. Technologies/Techniques like Flash, Javascript, AJAX, PHP, browser extensions and the rest can do a lot of what ActiveX could do, and much more securely. ActiveX in my view is a weak link that is asking for viruses.