I'm from Canada, guess if I buy from US sellers I must obviously be defrauding everybody left and right with my confirmed Paypal account, fake bidpay payments and bogus personal cheques under the name of Bill Gates. Get a fucking life, just because someone is international not everybody will "steal" your item. What about "not getting my item" bs.. any reasonable international customer realizes that hey from the US it make take 2 weeks to get my item or longer (usually within a week, 2 weeks or more if customs sticks a finger in your ass for duty etc.) Canada, UK, United States all have the ability to use confirmed addresses, sure people are paranoid and want me to pay for UPS or USPS Global Express thats FINE! The second I bid I've accepted the listed shipping charges, and if they aren't listed I get a hold of the seller and ask so I don't get stuck with a $50 handling charge to fill out a form with 3 blanks "Item", "Declared Value", and Signature. Majority of the time it's not paranoia to ship international, it's because they don't want to fill out a simple form. Bidding on auctions? Use commonsense, if you see a $1500 laptop for $500.. there's something funny especially if the end of auction message starts with "Hello Mr. xxxxxxx, thank you for winning my action, I cannot accept payment buyt my friend Albert Habbibi can he's located in Lagos, Nigeria." Be your own fraud PI, use tools on sites like toolhaus.org to view all red donuts hidden in the greens. Something fishy? Find another auction. - End of Rant...
I think most people that used Kazaa stop using the service long prior due to 9 out of 10 music files being corrupted or poisoned. Even if that had not happened, there is a large amount of people that ceased to use Kazaa in favor of BitTorrent.
Working in retail, one thing I've noticed is that customers seem to care about useless things such as whether it's vertical/horizontal or how it looks or goes with your furniture. Why else even with the Gamecube you have different colors to choose from? Apparantly the color of a vacuum or mattress set it important for some people, but I honestly wouldn't give two shits about it. But I do agress with the point about size in Japan.
Here is my opinion regarding Microsoft. Microsoft is targetted by far more hackers due to the popularity and "success" by the company by being on the average computer users computer. I'm sure this is obvious and probably mentioned in these comments before.
However, Bill Gates promises the following in Longhorn: Malware will be a thing of the past. In my theory, I've gotten the same promises in email that I've received from Nigeria. Anyone with the patience and presistance will be able to exploit software, regardless how well it has been programmed. Surely there was a developer that isn't 100% perfect.
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Why do I get a feeling Microsoft's spyware program will detect this as malware?
I'm from Canada, guess if I buy from US sellers I must obviously be defrauding everybody left and right with my confirmed Paypal account, fake bidpay payments and bogus personal cheques under the name of Bill Gates. Get a fucking life, just because someone is international not everybody will "steal" your item. What about "not getting my item" bs.. any reasonable international customer realizes that hey from the US it make take 2 weeks to get my item or longer (usually within a week, 2 weeks or more if customs sticks a finger in your ass for duty etc.) Canada, UK, United States all have the ability to use confirmed addresses, sure people are paranoid and want me to pay for UPS or USPS Global Express thats FINE! The second I bid I've accepted the listed shipping charges, and if they aren't listed I get a hold of the seller and ask so I don't get stuck with a $50 handling charge to fill out a form with 3 blanks "Item", "Declared Value", and Signature. Majority of the time it's not paranoia to ship international, it's because they don't want to fill out a simple form. Bidding on auctions? Use commonsense, if you see a $1500 laptop for $500.. there's something funny especially if the end of auction message starts with "Hello Mr. xxxxxxx, thank you for winning my action, I cannot accept payment buyt my friend Albert Habbibi can he's located in Lagos, Nigeria." Be your own fraud PI, use tools on sites like toolhaus.org to view all red donuts hidden in the greens. Something fishy? Find another auction. - End of Rant...
I think most people that used Kazaa stop using the service long prior due to 9 out of 10 music files being corrupted or poisoned. Even if that had not happened, there is a large amount of people that ceased to use Kazaa in favor of BitTorrent.
Now I can really be a woman when I get my sex change done :D
Working in retail, one thing I've noticed is that customers seem to care about useless things such as whether it's vertical/horizontal or how it looks or goes with your furniture. Why else even with the Gamecube you have different colors to choose from? Apparantly the color of a vacuum or mattress set it important for some people, but I honestly wouldn't give two shits about it. But I do agress with the point about size in Japan.
Maybe that's why it's in the closet ;)
I assume it won't allow multiple processors eh? Damn, guess I have to put that Quad Pentium Pro server back in the closet :|
Here is my opinion regarding Microsoft. Microsoft is targetted by far more hackers due to the popularity and "success" by the company by being on the average computer users computer. I'm sure this is obvious and probably mentioned in these comments before. However, Bill Gates promises the following in Longhorn: Malware will be a thing of the past. In my theory, I've gotten the same promises in email that I've received from Nigeria. Anyone with the patience and presistance will be able to exploit software, regardless how well it has been programmed. Surely there was a developer that isn't 100% perfect.