I agree. I however do find physical dvd's adverts amusing and interesting when i rent the odd one usually for subtitles.
An example - after extending copyright term yet again on one disk i rented was a advert for the public to save old copyright films by donating money to the mpaa. Another dvd rained on netflix's and others parade with a 'free' hollywood streaming service no doubt with horrid drm and non workable on linux as well. The double standards are interesting.
Blueray might be rubbish with all those 4k resolution televisions, most people might have 1080 spec tv's but not use it so i doubt they can see any difference.
The brits on/. have a different take on Gordon Ramsay
Our joke goes along the lines of - on any day he is making tv adverts, while making his branded biscuits in a factory in Northampton, and doing something for british airways, before working at one of those celeb resturants at lunchtime, the afternoon is tv time with a series to make, then he jets off to America to save a restaurant. I guess the cook books get written overnight.
I do not do bitcoin, i have neither the bandwidth to waste or the gpu hardware to mine and also not run microsoft windows that seems to scream btc fan.
I do need bitcoin not much per year (under 100 dolars) , and so tried to open an account with mtgox.
I got the governental forms [months pass], that got me a updated drivers license and passport and submitted them to magic the gathering exchange to verify my id. but I kept getting rejected. I had no value in the account.
So three months after i start this and still getting nowhere with the identity verification i email them and say please cancel the account.
Oddly that means approve in magic speak.
Somehow that concerns me and this was last year so i do not anything with this thing, and spend some time getting an independent wallet which takes a couple of months to download. Then mtgox go bankrupt.
I have a btc wallet, it has no money in it, and i have not spent money to do anything with bitcoin so far.
Maybe i got lost in translation but i am glad i never had any further dealings with mtgox
We have been 'probed' by amazon, there abuse report standards would seem to indicate i have to run wireshark or a equivalent tool from the whois.
Comment: All abuse reports MUST include: Comment: * src IP Comment: * dest IP (your IP) Comment: * dest port Comment: * Accurate date/timestamp and timezone of activity Comment: * Intensity/frequency (short log extracts) Comment: * Your contact details (phone and email) Without these we will be unable to identify the correct owner of the IP address at that point in time
More of linux shop here but the one remaining ms os pc which had updates until november has just been deemed illegal by somebody last month.
I briefly tried to deal with the issue - the supplier hp told me to get lost, and once through to the right region (hp's website royally sucks) the human blamed ms and gave me a wrong phone number for buck passing.
I have put the machine on a list for debian upgrades for next year.
Huhne is a businessman, and a 'johny come lately; to the iffy and corrupt politics route that is the ppe, or the fast track to m15 and m16. The French have a similar setup
Oxbridge talks to Oxbridge only on matters of its choosing and distrusts people such as the non member as he is.
I wont defend that some sell off's have issues as to value for money for the state. But British Telecom is a lot better than it used to be, there used to be waiting lists for telephones, when answer phones where bleeding edge. I do not rate BT as a good firm but at least with competitive framework the industry seems to be ok and a lot better now.
My last book i bought came from a charity shop as nobody sold it in my region in europe not even the independent book shops. The amazon version on e-reader would have cost me $100 dollars with device, it was cheaper to import the book from a foriegn location. Also as i like to use my lending library that all those elected people love closing down and so i am not buying into e-books. I do have some pdfs with my name and address in as well compliments of the publisher and are horrid to navigate.
I read a lot. On buying a ereader i am not buying a ereader thing that only works in one shop. As i use linux daily another issue is that drm or reading clients [adobe] are missing but not a problem in apple and windows land.
An e-reader sounds a great idea until i start shooting holes into the arguments. When i can load books via linux into an ereader, use my library with it and purchase books with it then consider me a customer.
Actually trying to give amazon money is hard as a linux person.
Short version of the story is about a book reviewed here on slashdot.
Only available in kindle, physical copies non existant unless you import it - i asked did the kindle reader 'app' work in linux Answer back was no as i was in the wrong region. A kindle was also more than it would cost to import the book from a foriegn land.
Six months later i find a physical book in a charity shop in my region. I dont plan on buying a kindle now.
Libraries can also be brilliant places and are worth supporting.
The average user does not seem to know that the gateway of the vpn directs all traffic to it. I run virtual os'es with one routes to a vpn and the other on my network.
There always was some hardware switches and routers made before somebody at corporate decided that cisco was um was not something they would be fired for buying bit like ibm was.
Gandalf whom made hardware bridges got a bit secretive and probably lost support being that even looking at there web pages required that you be a reseller.
I'm sure those with the clout can buy direct from china to there specs opposed to brand names.
Automate it i run failtoban which can be nicely configured, kiddies probing the websites for php_my_admin thing get mod_spamhaus checks who if reported get no site. Html form scanners get botscout checks and also a humorous email address in the html to send drugs deals to us which does not work. Occasionally we change that just for a laugh when we see it in use.
We still report spam to spamcop. Yes i will cancel your air travel arrangements if you put the wrong address in the airline booking system. Airlines are very happy to oblige.
That leaves just the determined idiots who well after that deserve a personal mention to their isp using a failtoban report or two the computer just happened to generate.
So perhaps when then fb think im a bit dumb since i dont use there site (four years) they will tell me how to rejoin on there email thing (that i dont have access to) rather than to the email i use. I'm good with that foolery.
Speaking as a consumer the last time i bothered to contact hp the person on im (built into help) wanted to know if i was american, saying european got me disconnected [some years ago]. We did not buy a great deal of hp stuff after that
It might explain why i never even bothered to look at hp for a recent replacement thing (plus issues with the windows tax), and we also thinking of dumping our hp printers when they die due to annoyances with consumables and there blow up chips in toner cartridges.
The funniest thing i saw recently was a printer supplies promotion that offered an ipad to the winner.
Slashdot Mirror
We got one once, the paper envelope was then returned with lots of junk paper [reply paid by droa] and we never got another.
Wow Icann did something.
If the only place i could get 'x' was from godaddy, i would not use 'x'.
Any investor who think television advertising = a business without competition clearly is stupid,
Our fta set top box had one firmware update and that was it. So a three year update history sounds amazing from our point of view.
I agree. I however do find physical dvd's adverts amusing and interesting when i rent the odd one usually for subtitles.
An example - after extending copyright term yet again on one disk i rented was a advert for the public to save old copyright films by donating money to the mpaa. Another dvd rained on netflix's and others parade with a 'free' hollywood streaming service no doubt with horrid drm and non workable on linux as well. The double standards are interesting.
Blueray might be rubbish with all those 4k resolution televisions, most people might have 1080 spec tv's but not use it so i doubt they can see any difference.
Which is an interesting discussion in itself, Ubiquity sme stuff is also a lot cheaper
The brits on /. have a different take on Gordon Ramsay
Our joke goes along the lines of - on any day he is making tv adverts, while making his branded biscuits in a factory in Northampton, and doing something for british airways, before working at one of those celeb resturants at lunchtime, the afternoon is tv time with a series to make, then he jets off to America to save a restaurant. I guess the cook books get written overnight.
Ramsay is a brand and not what you think he is.
Run it, log it and you too will see a lot of aws
54.193.36.150
54.193.50.3
54.193.73.95
54.193.95.230
54.194.121.137
54.194.145.249
54.194.178.152
54.194.198.11
54.194.198.139
Wont bore you further, not sure informing abuse at amazon does anything though
I do not do bitcoin, i have neither the bandwidth to waste or the gpu hardware to mine and also not run microsoft windows that seems to scream btc fan.
I do need bitcoin not much per year (under 100 dolars) , and so tried to open an account with mtgox.
I got the governental forms [months pass], that got me a updated drivers license and passport and submitted them to magic the gathering exchange to verify my id. but I kept getting rejected. I had no value in the account.
So three months after i start this and still getting nowhere with the identity verification i email them and say please cancel the account.
Oddly that means approve in magic speak.
Somehow that concerns me and this was last year so i do not anything with this thing, and spend some time getting an independent wallet which takes a couple of months to download. Then mtgox go bankrupt.
I have a btc wallet, it has no money in it, and i have not spent money to do anything with bitcoin so far.
Maybe i got lost in translation but i am glad i never had any further dealings with mtgox
We have been 'probed' by amazon, there abuse report standards would seem to indicate i have to run wireshark or a equivalent tool from the whois.
Comment: All abuse reports MUST include:
Comment: * src IP
Comment: * dest IP (your IP)
Comment: * dest port
Comment: * Accurate date/timestamp and timezone of activity
Comment: * Intensity/frequency (short log extracts)
Comment: * Your contact details (phone and email) Without these we will be unable to identify the correct owner of the IP address at that point in time
So they do not have to do anything Shady.
Good to know, - but not the outcome wanted.
Its been ten plus years since i personally last used a microsoft os.
It will happen to you one day
Yes i guess it got duplicate keygen'ed by something. Since nobody wants to 'help' loading linux will be my solution
More of linux shop here but the one remaining ms os pc which had updates until november has just been deemed illegal by somebody last month.
I briefly tried to deal with the issue - the supplier hp told me to get lost, and once through to the right region (hp's website royally sucks) the human blamed ms and gave me a wrong phone number for buck passing.
I have put the machine on a list for debian upgrades for next year.
Huhne is a businessman, and a 'johny come lately; to the iffy and corrupt politics route that is the ppe, or the fast track to m15 and m16. The French have a similar setup
Oxbridge talks to Oxbridge only on matters of its choosing and distrusts people such as the non member as he is.
I wont defend that some sell off's have issues as to value for money for the state. But British Telecom is a lot better than it used to be, there used to be waiting lists for telephones, when answer phones where bleeding edge. I do not rate BT as a good firm but at least with competitive framework the industry seems to be ok and a lot better now.
Governments can suck too
On twitter recently #drm was trending over the ms new console. People might not think it issue 1 but somehow the eff have pushed in to people brains.
End to end encryption does not exist, a design flaw.
Ssl is tied to domain names, I had the recent experience of purchasing ssl on a site with no ssl. The irony of that statement i will let sink in
My last book i bought came from a charity shop as nobody sold it in my region in europe not even the independent book shops. The amazon version on e-reader would have cost me $100 dollars with device, it was cheaper to import the book from a foriegn location. Also as i like to use my lending library that all those elected people love closing down and so i am not buying into e-books. I do have some pdfs with my name and address in as well compliments of the publisher and are horrid to navigate.
I read a lot. On buying a ereader i am not buying a ereader thing that only works in one shop. As i use linux daily another issue is that drm or reading clients [adobe] are missing but not a problem in apple and windows land.
An e-reader sounds a great idea until i start shooting holes into the arguments. When i can load books via linux into an ereader, use my library with it and purchase books with it then consider me a customer.
The amazon staff where unsure of that and the geolocation issues. I got a 'forget it'. when i enquired
Buying a drm and limited e-reader to one shop is not my idea of progress.
Mind you perhaps with amazon recruiting people who define that windows or mac the only platforms is an issue
Actually trying to give amazon money is hard as a linux person.
Short version of the story is about a book reviewed here on slashdot.
Only available in kindle, physical copies non existant unless you import it - i asked did the kindle reader 'app' work in linux Answer back was no as i was in the wrong region. A kindle was also more than it would cost to import the book from a foriegn land.
Six months later i find a physical book in a charity shop in my region. I dont plan on buying a kindle now.
Libraries can also be brilliant places and are worth supporting.
The average user does not seem to know that the gateway of the vpn directs all traffic to it. I run virtual os'es with one routes to a vpn and the other on my network.
Remind you of the film the running man ?
There always was some hardware switches and routers made before somebody at corporate decided that cisco was um was not something they would be fired for buying bit like ibm was.
Gandalf whom made hardware bridges got a bit secretive and probably lost support being that even looking at there web pages required that you be a reseller.
I'm sure those with the clout can buy direct from china to there specs opposed to brand names.
Automate it i run failtoban which can be nicely configured, kiddies probing the websites for php_my_admin thing get mod_spamhaus checks who if reported get no site. Html form scanners get botscout checks and also a humorous email address in the html to send drugs deals to us which does not work. Occasionally we change that just for a laugh when we see it in use.
We still report spam to spamcop.
Yes i will cancel your air travel arrangements if you put the wrong address in the airline booking system. Airlines are very happy to oblige.
That leaves just the determined idiots who well after that deserve a personal mention to their isp using a failtoban report or two the computer just happened to generate.
So perhaps when then fb think im a bit dumb since i dont use there site (four years) they will tell me how to rejoin on there email thing (that i dont have access to) rather than to the email i use. I'm good with that foolery.
Speaking as a consumer the last time i bothered to contact hp the person on im (built into help) wanted to know if i was american, saying european got me disconnected [some years ago]. We did not buy a great deal of hp stuff after that
It might explain why i never even bothered to look at hp for a recent replacement thing (plus issues with the windows tax), and we also thinking of dumping our hp printers when they die due to annoyances with consumables and there blow up chips in toner cartridges.
The funniest thing i saw recently was a printer supplies promotion that offered an ipad to the winner.