you actually connect a bar pointing to the candidate's name or yes/no for an issue. So it's not quite filling in an oval. The lines that are draw are quite thick, but a line less than half the width works.
Why not run an NNTP server subscribed to a few alt.binaries groups, take the raw feed and write a few giga/terabytes to the hard drive, and then run your choice of compression program on that random data, while stripping out the headers (you really don't want a ZIP header to truly announce that you ran ZIP) and you've got your one time pad. If you want more granularity than the alt.binaries, other high volume newsgroups might be substituted, and salting it with some smaller and more arcane newsgroups would probably be a good idea as well.
If you RTFA, the article states what they are taxing in exactly one sentence. On the second page of the article. Clear as mud eh?
They are taxing the lease cost or the depreciation that the company writes off.
There may be additional local taxes as well.
I was wondering what the hell I was going to be taxed on my home LAN if this got passed, and since I neither lease the equipment, nor write off depreciation, I wouldn't be paying the tax. Let me run it as a home office though, and I guess I don't get to depreciate my router and Ethernet cards if I want to without paying a tax.
It's really surprising that gas stations don't market themselves like other products do, where the price tag contains the true price and the taxes are added when you pay. Gas would look something like "70 cents/gal + Taxes".
Don't they do that in Indiana?
They used to charge sales tax on top of what the price was on the pump, but sometime in the '80s I think, the legislature changed it so that the sales tax was included in the pump price. You could tell a non-native by whether they they pumped to a whole amount, or they pumped to a weird amount that would then be taxed to a whole dollar amount.
As an Ohioan that had family in Illinois, I made it a point to never get gas in Indiana on trips to home.
I do everything in Mozilla in tabs. I open new sites in tabs, I'll even load other pages in tabs (middle click is your friend). As a result, they can't spy on me, because I don't go anywhere in that tab once I get there. If (and that might be a pretty big if) that is how you do your browsing, this bug isn't a big deal.
I'm far from being an OS/2 advocate. I support them as a network administrator, with the network currently being upgraded from Lan Server 4.0 to Warp Server for e-business.
I'm afraid I'm ready for the end of OS/2. I don't have anything bad against it, per se. But take the client for instance. I'm tired of running 16 bit drivers, such as those used for some sound cards and the ZIP drive.
I wanna know who these people are and what the hell they run as they keep claiming that OS/2 is so crash proof. Let them run the Netscape 4.61 beta for OS/2 and see how long their system stays stable. I'm going through weekly reboots, if not more often. All of my Windows 9X machines are at least as stable if not more.
And then there's the server side of shitty software. Lexmark has their software for network printers so botched up, that server gets booted weekly now. That's with the latest software I've got. With the original software that these people were running before I took over the network, it was a daily thing.
I'm tired of shitty software, shitty support (IBM won't let Netscape do its port of Netscape to OS/2, IBM has to do it. They come out with a beta of 4.04 when 4.5 was gold on every other platform. They then come out with a beta of 4.61 before they even get 4.04 bug free. Hell, my Communicator 4.0X betas under Win 9X were more stable than the current 4.04 release on OS/2.
I'm tired of the ugly color scheme they've got. Their device support sucks. I can't get 1024x728x65K support, even though I've got enough memory to support it (BIOS, NOT the driver!). I have to have another meg of video memory for that! Grrrrr. Too fucking lazy??? Even their high falughting servers only come with 512K of video memory. Damn IBM, ever think that I might just want to be able to surf the net comfortably with one of those things???
It's been obvious for some years now that IBM is not going to commit to any kind of major upgrade for OS/2.
I never installed Lan Server 5.0 (Warp 4 Server), but from installing Warp 4, Warp Server for e-commerce doesn't seem to be a great wonderfull leap from that. The Journaled File System seems to be nice. But that has yet to seen real action yet.
From what I've read, they are going to be selling it. For just a few bucks more, you can upgrade your upstream bandwidth! How much is anybody's guess.
Unfortunately where I live, the stoopid cable company only offers download bandwidth over the cable. You still have to have a modem and telephone line as your upload pipe, which sucks royally.
I should move to another part of town (different cable system). Then I could get Road Runner. I still have reservations about that (what happens when everybody gets it, versus the extremely light subscriber coverage they have now)
I'd have to change ISPs, which I'm a bit loathe to do, but since my current ISP has been bought out by somebody else, it looks like that'll be changing by Feb. 2000, since that's the last date that they can guarantee that the domain name won't change.
Supposedly I'll have access to DSL by the 3rd quarter in my area. Won't have to move that way.
As a public sector worker, I have read about somebody spamming some state's employees with e-mail, and the court ruled in the spammers favor. I'm coming up with nada on a search right now. IIRC, the matter was that since e-mail was a way for the public to communicate with the public workers, anybody could send e-mail to any public worker, even if it was not job related. The state wanted to limit the e-mail to those people who could best use the "information", but the judge disallowed that.
I don't think we can say that this will be the last word on the subject. One case does not make the law for the rest of the country.
>I'm sure there is some good reason to have the serial number.
I'm not
The problem with the serial number as I see it is that people will put too much confidence into the value of this serial number.
They are already talking about the serial number being a secure method for e-commerce. It's about as secure as your credit card, and probably less so. Sniff around the network and you'll be seeing these ID's fly around the net without too much trouble. Hmmmm. This looks like a good one. I think I'll be that person for today.
How will you know that the serial number you are using is actually your real serial number, not something that somebody's managed to slip to you. Not quite like a trojan, but something close. Now you can't access your bank account. Or the same or a different program has sent your serial number to somebody who's computer now has full access to your bank account.
Software that will use this serial number will get hacked, just like how Office 2000 will get hacked to prevent the "registration" that Microsoft wants.
Upgrades will be hell. Which is what I see as the number one reason for not having everything go off the serial number.
>All cars have serial numbers.
This is true. But it's not too hard to have the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) changed for various reasons. Some car afficianados want their car to be so perfect that if they take an existing car and change the paint color, they'll have a new VIN cut that now identifies the new color, not the old color that it was orginally painted. It can even be changed to reflect a color that wasn't available on that model at the time.
And then again, what use is the VIN anyways? Well, for tracking ownership, via title, which also relates to taxes, such as licensing. But when I fill up with gas, the gas doesn't care what VIN I have. It doesn't care if I've replaced the alternator. The tires don't have anything to do with the VIN. Even things that may very well have a VIN attached to them, such as a car door, can be replaced without repercussion.
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I find this pretty offensive.
Mainly because what the blogger has been publishing is the truth, and the idiot paper had admitted as as such!
The only reason for trying to get the identification is retribution. Retribution for printing the truth?
No wonder local politics bothers me.
you actually connect a bar pointing to the candidate's name or yes/no for an issue. So it's not quite filling in an oval. The lines that are draw are quite thick, but a line less than half the width works.
I ran IE 7 under Windows 2003 Server Standard, did a Google image search for kitten, and clicked away.
No phishing here nor was it flagged as such.
Why not run an NNTP server subscribed to a few alt.binaries groups, take the raw feed and write a few giga/terabytes to the hard drive, and then run your choice of compression program on that random data, while stripping out the headers (you really don't want a ZIP header to truly announce that you ran ZIP) and you've got your one time pad. If you want more granularity than the alt.binaries, other high volume newsgroups might be substituted, and salting it with some smaller and more arcane newsgroups would probably be a good idea as well.
I've always said, "The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us are getting the hell off this rock!"
If you RTFA, the article states what they are taxing in exactly one sentence. On the second page of the article. Clear as mud eh?
They are taxing the lease cost or the depreciation that the company writes off.
There may be additional local taxes as well.
I was wondering what the hell I was going to be taxed on my home LAN if this got passed, and since I neither lease the equipment, nor write off depreciation, I wouldn't be paying the tax. Let me run it as a home office though, and I guess I don't get to depreciate my router and Ethernet cards if I want to without paying a tax.
As an Ohioan that had family in Illinois, I made it a point to never get gas in Indiana on trips to home.
I do everything in Mozilla in tabs. I open new sites in tabs, I'll even load other pages in tabs (middle click is your friend). As a result, they can't spy on me, because I don't go anywhere in that tab once I get there. If (and that might be a pretty big if) that is how you do your browsing, this bug isn't a big deal.
I'm afraid I'm ready for the end of OS/2. I don't have anything bad against it, per se. But take the client for instance. I'm tired of running 16 bit drivers, such as those used for some sound cards and the ZIP drive.
I wanna know who these people are and what the hell they run as they keep claiming that OS/2 is so crash proof. Let them run the Netscape 4.61 beta for OS/2 and see how long their system stays stable. I'm going through weekly reboots, if not more often. All of my Windows 9X machines are at least as stable if not more.
And then there's the server side of shitty software. Lexmark has their software for network printers so botched up, that server gets booted weekly now. That's with the latest software I've got. With the original software that these people were running before I took over the network, it was a daily thing.
I'm tired of shitty software, shitty support (IBM won't let Netscape do its port of Netscape to OS/2, IBM has to do it. They come out with a beta of 4.04 when 4.5 was gold on every other platform. They then come out with a beta of 4.61 before they even get 4.04 bug free. Hell, my Communicator 4.0X betas under Win 9X were more stable than the current 4.04 release on OS/2.
I'm tired of the ugly color scheme they've got. Their device support sucks. I can't get 1024x728x65K support, even though I've got enough memory to support it (BIOS, NOT the driver!). I have to have another meg of video memory for that! Grrrrr. Too fucking lazy??? Even their high falughting servers only come with 512K of video memory. Damn IBM, ever think that I might just want to be able to surf the net comfortably with one of those things???
It's been obvious for some years now that IBM is not going to commit to any kind of major upgrade for OS/2.
I never installed Lan Server 5.0 (Warp 4 Server), but from installing Warp 4, Warp Server for e-commerce doesn't seem to be a great wonderfull leap from that. The Journaled File System seems to be nice. But that has yet to seen real action yet.
From what I've read, they are going to be selling it. For just a few bucks more, you can upgrade your upstream bandwidth! How much is anybody's guess.
Unfortunately where I live, the stoopid cable company only offers download bandwidth over the cable. You still have to have a modem and telephone line as your upload pipe, which sucks royally.
I should move to another part of town (different cable system). Then I could get Road Runner. I still have reservations about that (what happens when everybody gets it, versus the extremely light subscriber coverage they have now)
I'd have to change ISPs, which I'm a bit loathe to do, but since my current ISP has been bought out by somebody else, it looks like that'll be changing by Feb. 2000, since that's the last date that they can guarantee that the domain name won't change.
Supposedly I'll have access to DSL by the 3rd quarter in my area. Won't have to move that way.
I don't think we can say that this will be the last word on the subject. One case does not make the law for the rest of the country.
I'm not
The problem with the serial number as I see it is that people will put too much confidence into the value of this serial number.
They are already talking about the serial number being a secure method for e-commerce. It's about as secure as your credit card, and probably less so. Sniff around the network and you'll be seeing these ID's fly around the net without too much trouble. Hmmmm. This looks like a good one. I think I'll be that person for today.
How will you know that the serial number you are using is actually your real serial number, not something that somebody's managed to slip to you. Not quite like a trojan, but something close. Now you can't access your bank account. Or the same or a different program has sent your serial number to somebody who's computer now has full access to your bank account.
Software that will use this serial number will get hacked, just like how Office 2000 will get hacked to prevent the "registration" that Microsoft wants.
Upgrades will be hell. Which is what I see as the number one reason for not having everything go off the serial number.
>All cars have serial numbers.
This is true. But it's not too hard to have the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) changed for various reasons. Some car afficianados want their car to be so perfect that if they take an existing car and change the paint color, they'll have a new VIN cut that now identifies the new color, not the old color that it was orginally painted. It can even be changed to reflect a color that wasn't available on that model at the time.
And then again, what use is the VIN anyways? Well, for tracking ownership, via title, which also relates to taxes, such as licensing. But when I fill up with gas, the gas doesn't care what VIN I have. It doesn't care if I've replaced the alternator. The tires don't have anything to do with the VIN. Even things that may very well have a VIN attached to them, such as a car door, can be replaced without repercussion.
That doesn't appear to be this case here