I was actually using regular Adblock until a week or so ago when Google ads started showing up on Slashdot and other sites. Try as I might, I was unable to create a filter to get rid of them.
Adblock Plus took care of them instantly with the default list.
The planets, including Venus, are easily visible in the cities and are essentially unaffected by light pollution. Not that I'm suggesting that light pollution not be dealt with, just that not all hope is lost.
As for the ISS, with a magnitude of -2 or brighter, it is definitely visible anywhere. Check Heaven's Above for the transit times. Iridium flares are fun too!
Anyone have a link to an HD copy? Not that I don't enjoy the utter lack of quality that comprises your typical YouTube video....
Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children, I have several white, black, and blue pairs of socks for various purposes: school, work, dress, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant comfort, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose socks were whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen sock 'drawers' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your socks?
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Does anyone know a cheap source for legit XP Pro licenses, apart from peeling stickers off of trashed systems?
I think whether or not this is wrong depends entirely on whether or not money as changed hands at the time the error is noticed.
For instance, we would not consider a car dealership to be contractually bound to sell cars for $3000 a piece if a typo caused a zero to be left off the price in an advertisement. An advertisement or coupon simply does not constitute a contract.
In that same vein, I would argue that making an internet purchase is not a contract as well, or rather, at least not initially. Giving a company your credit information and clicking "Purchase" is not the same as handing another person cash and shaking hands, as that credit information must first be authorized and processed before money is actually transferred. Until that is done, the transaction (and hence, contract) has not been completed, and you the consumer aren't entitled to anything. Consequently, if an error is found at this stage, I see nothing wrong with a company cancelling the order in question.
If money is transferred, that is a whole different ball of wax. The deal is then done, and a business should be held to whatever price they stated. At that point they have taken your money, depriving you the use of it for anything else, and it is not acceptable for them to cancel the order simply because of their incompetence, anymore than they can call you up a month later and demand more money for an item you already purchased.
Work continues in this area. -- DEC's SPR-Answering-Automaton
