So how about, PayPal to a third party. Third Party to the Casino then money back to Third Party, back to PayPal then back to my bank and into my pocket.
Of how about my bank to Paypal, log in to PayPal through an overseas proxy (showing them I am out of the US) then to the Casino and back through PayPal to my bank. I have a feeling PayPal is not going to go above and beyond to help this, they are a buisness they just want their 3%.
Or maybe the Casinos set up "reputable businesses". This way if PayPal is given a "black list" by the US government the "reputable businesses" are not on it. Paypal money to them, transfer it into the Casino then back to the "reputable business" then back to PayPal then to my bank. You could even skip PayPal in this scenario, go right from bank to the "reputable business" If they (the USGov) made a black list they would have to update it constantly, the Casinos would just have to stay one step ahead, and if it meant money for them they would be willing to do it.
Another concern is how much research does PayPal or my Bank have to do? Do they have to block money going in? Block money transfers coming from? Block both? Who decides what sites are blocked? What if the Casinos sell T-Shirts, can we not buy them?
This sounds to me to be a bit like all the other Pre-Election bullshit. This is not as bad as most (gay marriage, flag burning) but they are setting up two sides. One is a Free Society, Free Market camp, the other is the Gambling is bad camp, and I guess a third side could be the Lost Tax Revenue camp.
Why wouldn't the players just put money in PayPal then, transfer it for "credits" at the Casino/Poker Site and then transfer the money back to PayPal (thier winnings). Then their banks would only be working with PayPal. I am sure all of these Poker Sites would be willing to sign up (if not already) with PayPal if it was the only way to get the American players involved.
I dunno, maybe Ivan Brian Aterrorist? I.B. Aterrorist.
But it would be cool for all the terrorists to change thier names to something less Muslim sounding and then for them to get arrested and charged with thier new names.
"The Terrorists who were apprehended were I.P. Freely, Ben Dover, Mike Hunt, Haywood Jablowme, and Jack Mehoff"
On the "in 1988 we had a VCR with a 30-second fastforward button" note, I had a TV that had a timer. If you clicked it once a 30 second timer popped up in the corner (would disappear until 10 seconds remained). If you hit it twice 60 seconds, 3 times 90 seconds, and so on. The only reason this existed was so you could set it to say 120 or 150 seconds (2.5 minutes) and go look at other channels and it would remind you that you had been gone for X amount of time and the commericals were probably over.
There was also the abiltiy to set it to turn back to the original channel after the timer ran out. So if I was watching channel 36 and set the timer for 2 minutes and then flipped through other channels, after 2 minutes it would bring me back to channel 36. I loved that feature. DVR has pretty much replaced it but it was a great feature.
Not only do I get no ads, sometimes I get a better picture and because it's not from my local ABC affiliate (WTEN) I don't get thier stupid pop up "Your Watching ABC 10" after every commercial break.
Although onetime I got a Lost Episode from I beleive Canada and there was a Flood Warning for the western parts of whatever city the feed originated. That was more funny that annoying.
The sad part here is that this guy feels qualified to stand up and lecture everyone on why he voted like he did, despite the fact that he knows nothing about the subject.
What is really sad is that he thinks he does.
Stupid people walking around knowing they are stupid are pretty much harmless. They will offer advice with caution.
It is the stupid people that think their smart that are the problem. They speak their half-truths with conviction and may just get others to beleive thier incorrect statements.
What would happen if they came to my house? I have a open network (really an access point). We share no files between computers and if someone (neighbors, friends, guys in cars out front) wants to hop on my signal I couldn't care less.
They can get online and I invite them too (network is titled "OPENNETWORK"). I wonder how the cops would respond if I told them that I purposely set it up to allow people to wardrive onto my internets?
There are 4 or 5 posts in here that speak of children. Does the article say he is a child molestor or a sex offender? I say this because not all sex offenders are into children. If I walk through the mall and grab your mothers boob as she walks by and I have a record and a shitty lawyer I will probably become a Level 3 sex offender. But I aint into kids, I just like grabbing Mrs. Butterworths titties. I hate when people assume that every sex offender is a child molestor.
About 3 years ago I was driving and saw a woman in a wheelchair (electric) driving along the sidewalk. As I passed her I noticed a small dog in front of her with a wheelchair as its hind legs! I have come to question how one aquires a paralyzed dog? Usually a household pet will be saved and given some sort of help, but the dogs you find at the pound would be put down if they were "broken" from the waist down (although I don't agree with it, it is true). I mean, you couldn't obtain a paralyzed dog from the vet/shelter/pound/breeder. So where did this woman find a paralyzed dog? I like to believe that it was given to her by some society that helps out those wheelchair bound, but I think the sad truth is that A) That dog doesn't need a wheelchair, she likes it in there... or B) She broke that dogs legs.
How long until we find out that every mobile phone has this feature and it has been activated by the NSA. Of course Verizon will say they were forced to submit the information to the NSA.
I have a problems with the definition of Inappropriate Violence... mainly that it is a subjective term.
But my problem is not that we cannot clearly define what is and isn't inappropriatley violent, my problem is that we can't even decided if it is violent in the first place.
Hear me out. For all of you in college dorm rooms or who have friends that play games all gatherd in one room, fire up a game of Grand Theft Auto. Go to the shady parts of town, get yourself a New Jersey Prom Queen (aka a Hooker) and drive around with her. Then bring the hooker to an side street, talk with her a bit (to hear that wonderful AI) and then kill her. Look around the room. Are your friends mouths open in horror or are they laughing thier asses off. And just to make sure it is an inappropriate amount of violence, throw 3 grenades at her feet, before they go off shoot her in the knees. Then back over her a few times in your car. I find it funnier to be run over by a Caddy then by a Econo Box, but YMMV.
The problem is that these men and women in fine linen suits can't comprehend that killing hookers is funny as hell. I can't say for certain the exact age it occurs, but somewhere after 30 our sense of humor does a 180 and killing hookers becomes sad.
I can't argue with your statements. I was watching ESPN the other day and they were talking about how the Championship games (or series) are watched in terms of viewers. The Superbowl is tops in America at an absurd number like 90 million (from my memory someone else will prove me wrong) and the NBA and MLB finals came in well below at about 30 & 20 million respectively. Football (with a round ball) has the World Cup championship coming in at.. I have to type this one out... 1,300,000,000. That is 1.21 Billion more people than who watch the Super Bowl and that is in 2002. No one knows what 2006 will hold.
The real question should be:
What does it take to make Americans watch Football
And not for nothing but I have only once in my life watched an entire game of Football/Soccer. Ireland v Italy from the Meadowlands, in 1994.
They should really not be allowed to say that... I mean, there should be some kind of gentlemen's agreement between reviews of Video Cards to never say that. It should read "Fastest card out right now" or "Fastest card we have ever tested" would be accurate. But when you bring "the planet" into the equation this thing should be Above and Beyond fast(er) than every thing else out there. It is technically right... until next month.
According to TFA, practical applications might include watches. I'm not a horologist, nor do I play one on TV, but to me a watch that tells me what time it used to be is right up there with chocolate teapots & concrete parachutes in the practicality stakes.
I might be wrong but I think the idea is power savings. The watch runs internally but only has to display the time (update) once a minute (if only hours/minutes) or once a second (if a "normal" watch).
Another application in a normal digital watch would be the date. It would only have to be changed once a day, rather than be an active display. It won't solve the worlds energy problems but it probably would help a normal watch battery last much longer than it currently does. Only having to power up once a day to change the Date or once a minute to change the time would help it save energy.
It would also be good for Cell phones and PDAs, instead of the monitor draining all the power, to actively display everything on the screen, some things could be static until chosen. Things like the Start Button if your using windows, or in a Cell phone it could statically display the number you dialed rather than keep it active which would drain more power. This won't fix the power consumption of backlighting the display but it will help with the displaying of the information.
There are potentially thousands (millions?) of applications for this. Another example would be the display on the cordless phone I have sitting below me as I type. It's display reads: "Sat, May 27, 1:22PM, TV room phone". We have 3 phones here and each reads where it is supposed to be (Upstairs phone, Kitchen phone) It helps to determine who lost the phone, or put it somewhere it shouldn't be (sister brings Kitchen phone upstairs and loses it all the time). This phone could save energy by only loading the Date and ID once a day, or the ID once in general. Again, it's not a major savings but it might help this phone last another 10 minutes per battery cylce. But the savings on a tiny Watch battery could be pretty big.
I can't get Firefox to connect, something to do with the firewall. It does not have permission and I don't really care enough to fix it. I mean, I am on Slashdot right now. None of the sites I am supposed to be at (mainly NY and Federal Criminal Justice sites, Lexus Nexis, and the like) have pop ups or ads. The problem doesn't exist according to our IT guys, only if you step outside of where you are supposed to be does it become a problem.
But I am allowed to go anywhere I want I often have to go to MySpace because apparently, many victims of crimes have accounts there. And fancy pages dedicated to the guys who they say are stalking them. Pages that say "I Love CmndrTaco" then they charge Taco with a stalking charge and we show the site in Court. I swear this has happened twice in the past 6 months. Who would have thought MySpace could be so usefull for the legal community.
I think I need to clear a few things up with my statement, so I don't look like the a complete fool, although this story is a day old so it will probably fall on deaf ears.
My main concern about a populated area was costs... San Diego is a VERY expensive area, why would they build there, why not some low priced area like North Dakota. I am also concerned about pollution/danger... my concerns here are misguided and I have been corrected.
I also wanted (originally) to included a joke in my post about how I don't beleive North Dakota actually exists. I edited it out because it would take away from my original post. That said, North Dakota does not exist. It is a place where the Government funnels money for top secret research and programs. If you drive north from South Dakota you hit Canada. If you see signs that read "Now entering North Dakota" they are lies, you are still in South Dakota and they just put signs there to keep the public in the dark.
Sorry, I completely forget about Ad-Block and similar features within user setups that are available. I am at work, I have to get the slow served, full featured internet. God forbid I try and save my office some bandwidth by editing my System32 "hosts" file.
There is really not much to bitch about here. It is a still ad with the ability to become a video ad.
Slashdot already has those fancy Microsoft video ads, and thiers are set to autoplay! Although, thank FSM, they are muted from the start and the user gets to activate the sound.
I can only speak of Avast! antivirus in the Windows XP X64 Environment, and I have to say I don't like it. It is one of the few AVs that actually support Win XP x64 (at least when it came out) and it was bloated. There were constantly pop-ups and it was a memory hog (again, can't speak for x86 Windows & Avast). I mainly got rid of it for the pop-ups, even with notifier off it still told me things that I really didn't care to know, mainly that it was running.
A good antivirus (IMHO) should start, update and run on its own. Tell you when there is a threat/infection and tell you how to fix it. It isn't the Weather Channel, I don't need the constant updates.
I'm not a scientist but is testing Nuclear Fusion in a very populated area a good idea? Couldn't they have done this in some place a little less populated? Like North Dakota or in the area near Area 51?
I don't quite understand your comment. Are you being sarcastic saying AT&T is fucked? Or are you saying AT&T should be embarassed that they ever hired guy like this?
If you comment is based on the fact that AT&T couldn't possibly tap into the entire internet then maybe you should have read on.
"Another 'Cut-In and Test Procedure' document dated January 24, 2003, provides diagrams of how AT&T Core Network circuits were to be run through the "splitter" cabinet...which were "cut-in" in February 2003, including ConXion, Verio, XO, Genuity, Qwest, PAIX, Allegiance, AboveNet, Global Crossing, C&W, UUNET, Level 3, Sprint, Telia, PSINet and Mae West.
And then, and most importantly...
By the way, Mae West is one of two key internet nodal points in the United States (the other, Mae East, is in Vienna, Virginia). It's not just WorldNet customers who are being spied on -- it's the entire internet.
Now I will admit that I do not know much about "nodal points" so I can't comment on wheter or not this is a Tin-Foil-Topic, but he does back up his claim.
Well the virus was probably written by a team of non-commercial developers. So MSFT is right. Only dangerous things come from those non-money grubbing hippies.
Thats a funny statement until you see....
From the article: The e-mail was written to look like an internal e-mail, including signature.
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So how about, PayPal to a third party. Third Party to the Casino then money back to Third Party, back to PayPal then back to my bank and into my pocket.
Of how about my bank to Paypal, log in to PayPal through an overseas proxy (showing them I am out of the US) then to the Casino and back through PayPal to my bank.
I have a feeling PayPal is not going to go above and beyond to help this, they are a buisness they just want their 3%.
Or maybe the Casinos set up "reputable businesses". This way if PayPal is given a "black list" by the US government the "reputable businesses" are not on it. Paypal money to them, transfer it into the Casino then back to the "reputable business" then back to PayPal then to my bank. You could even skip PayPal in this scenario, go right from bank to the "reputable business" If they (the USGov) made a black list they would have to update it constantly, the Casinos would just have to stay one step ahead, and if it meant money for them they would be willing to do it.
Another concern is how much research does PayPal or my Bank have to do? Do they have to block money going in? Block money transfers coming from? Block both? Who decides what sites are blocked? What if the Casinos sell T-Shirts, can we not buy them?
This sounds to me to be a bit like all the other Pre-Election bullshit. This is not as bad as most (gay marriage, flag burning) but they are setting up two sides. One is a Free Society, Free Market camp, the other is the Gambling is bad camp, and I guess a third side could be the Lost Tax Revenue camp.
Why wouldn't the players just put money in PayPal then, transfer it for "credits" at the Casino/Poker Site and then transfer the money back to PayPal (thier winnings). Then their banks would only be working with PayPal.
I am sure all of these Poker Sites would be willing to sign up (if not already) with PayPal if it was the only way to get the American players involved.
I dunno, maybe Ivan Brian Aterrorist? I.B. Aterrorist.
But it would be cool for all the terrorists to change thier names to something less Muslim sounding and then for them to get arrested and charged with thier new names.
"The Terrorists who were apprehended were I.P. Freely, Ben Dover, Mike Hunt, Haywood Jablowme, and Jack Mehoff"
On the "in 1988 we had a VCR with a 30-second fastforward button" note, I had a TV that had a timer. If you clicked it once a 30 second timer popped up in the corner (would disappear until 10 seconds remained). If you hit it twice 60 seconds, 3 times 90 seconds, and so on. The only reason this existed was so you could set it to say 120 or 150 seconds (2.5 minutes) and go look at other channels and it would remind you that you had been gone for X amount of time and the commericals were probably over.
There was also the abiltiy to set it to turn back to the original channel after the timer ran out. So if I was watching channel 36 and set the timer for 2 minutes and then flipped through other channels, after 2 minutes it would bring me back to channel 36. I loved that feature. DVR has pretty much replaced it but it was a great feature.
Fixed.
Not only do I get no ads, sometimes I get a better picture and because it's not from my local ABC affiliate (WTEN) I don't get thier stupid pop up "Your Watching ABC 10" after every commercial break.
Although onetime I got a Lost Episode from I beleive Canada and there was a Flood Warning for the western parts of whatever city the feed originated. That was more funny that annoying.
What is really sad is that he thinks he does.
Stupid people walking around knowing they are stupid are pretty much harmless. They will offer advice with caution.
It is the stupid people that think their smart that are the problem. They speak their half-truths with conviction and may just get others to beleive thier incorrect statements.
What would happen if they came to my house? I have a open network (really an access point). We share no files between computers and if someone (neighbors, friends, guys in cars out front) wants to hop on my signal I couldn't care less.
They can get online and I invite them too (network is titled "OPENNETWORK"). I wonder how the cops would respond if I told them that I purposely set it up to allow people to wardrive onto my internets?
There are 4 or 5 posts in here that speak of children. Does the article say he is a child molestor or a sex offender?
I say this because not all sex offenders are into children. If I walk through the mall and grab your mothers boob as she walks by and I have a record and a shitty lawyer I will probably become a Level 3 sex offender.
But I aint into kids, I just like grabbing Mrs. Butterworths titties. I hate when people assume that every sex offender is a child molestor.
About 3 years ago I was driving and saw a woman in a wheelchair (electric) driving along the sidewalk. As I passed her I noticed a small dog in front of her with a wheelchair as its hind legs!
I have come to question how one aquires a paralyzed dog? Usually a household pet will be saved and given some sort of help, but the dogs you find at the pound would be put down if they were "broken" from the waist down (although I don't agree with it, it is true). I mean, you couldn't obtain a paralyzed dog from the vet/shelter/pound/breeder. So where did this woman find a paralyzed dog?
I like to believe that it was given to her by some society that helps out those wheelchair bound, but I think the sad truth is that A) That dog doesn't need a wheelchair, she likes it in there... or B) She broke that dogs legs.
Uhmmm.... Last I checked the Yankees are alive and doing fine. In fact they lead the American League East, 1 game over some team from Boston.
Sorry man, I ran out of Mod Points yesterday. Although your joke is cheesey and obvious, it is better than what I came up with.
"HEADLINE: Ballmers follows Gates' lead, chairs everywhere breath sigh of relief"
How long until we find out that every mobile phone has this feature and it has been activated by the NSA.
Of course Verizon will say they were forced to submit the information to the NSA.
-October Sky
Cell phone free since 2003!
I have a problems with the definition of Inappropriate Violence... mainly that it is a subjective term.
But my problem is not that we cannot clearly define what is and isn't inappropriatley violent, my problem is that we can't even decided if it is violent in the first place.
Hear me out. For all of you in college dorm rooms or who have friends that play games all gatherd in one room, fire up a game of Grand Theft Auto. Go to the shady parts of town, get yourself a New Jersey Prom Queen (aka a Hooker) and drive around with her. Then bring the hooker to an side street, talk with her a bit (to hear that wonderful AI) and then kill her. Look around the room. Are your friends mouths open in horror or are they laughing thier asses off. And just to make sure it is an inappropriate amount of violence, throw 3 grenades at her feet, before they go off shoot her in the knees. Then back over her a few times in your car. I find it funnier to be run over by a Caddy then by a Econo Box, but YMMV.
The problem is that these men and women in fine linen suits can't comprehend that killing hookers is funny as hell. I can't say for certain the exact age it occurs, but somewhere after 30 our sense of humor does a 180 and killing hookers becomes sad.
The real question should be:
What does it take to make Americans watch Football
And not for nothing but I have only once in my life watched an entire game of Football/Soccer. Ireland v Italy from the Meadowlands, in 1994.
They should really not be allowed to say that... I mean, there should be some kind of gentlemen's agreement between reviews of Video Cards to never say that.
It should read "Fastest card out right now" or "Fastest card we have ever tested" would be accurate. But when you bring "the planet" into the equation this thing should be Above and Beyond fast(er) than every thing else out there. It is technically right... until next month.
I might be wrong but I think the idea is power savings. The watch runs internally but only has to display the time (update) once a minute (if only hours/minutes) or once a second (if a "normal" watch).
Another application in a normal digital watch would be the date. It would only have to be changed once a day, rather than be an active display. It won't solve the worlds energy problems but it probably would help a normal watch battery last much longer than it currently does. Only having to power up once a day to change the Date or once a minute to change the time would help it save energy.
It would also be good for Cell phones and PDAs, instead of the monitor draining all the power, to actively display everything on the screen, some things could be static until chosen. Things like the Start Button if your using windows, or in a Cell phone it could statically display the number you dialed rather than keep it active which would drain more power. This won't fix the power consumption of backlighting the display but it will help with the displaying of the information.
There are potentially thousands (millions?) of applications for this. Another example would be the display on the cordless phone I have sitting below me as I type. It's display reads: "Sat, May 27, 1:22PM, TV room phone". We have 3 phones here and each reads where it is supposed to be (Upstairs phone, Kitchen phone) It helps to determine who lost the phone, or put it somewhere it shouldn't be (sister brings Kitchen phone upstairs and loses it all the time). This phone could save energy by only loading the Date and ID once a day, or the ID once in general. Again, it's not a major savings but it might help this phone last another 10 minutes per battery cylce. But the savings on a tiny Watch battery could be pretty big.
I thought this was taken care of with sites like Google for Mobiles. But interesting none the less.
I can't get Firefox to connect, something to do with the firewall. It does not have permission and I don't really care enough to fix it. I mean, I am on Slashdot right now.
None of the sites I am supposed to be at (mainly NY and Federal Criminal Justice sites, Lexus Nexis, and the like) have pop ups or ads. The problem doesn't exist according to our IT guys, only if you step outside of where you are supposed to be does it become a problem.
But I am allowed to go anywhere I want I often have to go to MySpace because apparently, many victims of crimes have accounts there. And fancy pages dedicated to the guys who they say are stalking them. Pages that say "I Love CmndrTaco" then they charge Taco with a stalking charge and we show the site in Court. I swear this has happened twice in the past 6 months. Who would have thought MySpace could be so usefull for the legal community.
I think I need to clear a few things up with my statement, so I don't look like the a complete fool, although this story is a day old so it will probably fall on deaf ears.
My main concern about a populated area was costs... San Diego is a VERY expensive area, why would they build there, why not some low priced area like North Dakota.
I am also concerned about pollution/danger... my concerns here are misguided and I have been corrected.
I also wanted (originally) to included a joke in my post about how I don't beleive North Dakota actually exists. I edited it out because it would take away from my original post. That said, North Dakota does not exist. It is a place where the Government funnels money for top secret research and programs. If you drive north from South Dakota you hit Canada. If you see signs that read "Now entering North Dakota" they are lies, you are still in South Dakota and they just put signs there to keep the public in the dark.
That is all.
Sorry, I completely forget about Ad-Block and similar features within user setups that are available. I am at work, I have to get the slow served, full featured internet. God forbid I try and save my office some bandwidth by editing my System32 "hosts" file.
There is really not much to bitch about here. It is a still ad with the ability to become a video ad.
Slashdot already has those fancy Microsoft video ads, and thiers are set to autoplay! Although, thank FSM, they are muted from the start and the user gets to activate the sound.
I can only speak of Avast! antivirus in the Windows XP X64 Environment, and I have to say I don't like it.
It is one of the few AVs that actually support Win XP x64 (at least when it came out) and it was bloated. There were constantly pop-ups and it was a memory hog (again, can't speak for x86 Windows & Avast).
I mainly got rid of it for the pop-ups, even with notifier off it still told me things that I really didn't care to know, mainly that it was running.
A good antivirus (IMHO) should start, update and run on its own. Tell you when there is a threat/infection and tell you how to fix it. It isn't the Weather Channel, I don't need the constant updates.
I'm not a scientist but is testing Nuclear Fusion in a very populated area a good idea?
Couldn't they have done this in some place a little less populated? Like North Dakota or in the area near Area 51?
If you comment is based on the fact that AT&T couldn't possibly tap into the entire internet then maybe you should have read on.
"Another 'Cut-In and Test Procedure' document dated January 24, 2003, provides diagrams of how AT&T Core Network circuits were to be run through the "splitter" cabinet...which were "cut-in" in February 2003, including ConXion, Verio, XO, Genuity, Qwest, PAIX, Allegiance, AboveNet, Global Crossing, C&W, UUNET, Level 3, Sprint, Telia, PSINet and Mae West.
And then, and most importantly...
By the way, Mae West is one of two key internet nodal points in the United States (the other, Mae East, is in Vienna, Virginia). It's not just WorldNet customers who are being spied on -- it's the entire internet.
Now I will admit that I do not know much about "nodal points" so I can't comment on wheter or not this is a Tin-Foil-Topic, but he does back up his claim.
Thats a funny statement until you see.... From the article: The e-mail was written to look like an internal e-mail, including signature.
Each email is signed: Sincerly, Steve Jobs