I visited the CyberKnights web page which was yellow on black. I'm in a brighly lit room with a bright LCD screen -- now I have to wait for my corneas to grow back.
I hate the car in general. I love my mobile phone. It's the not mobile phone's fault if you only want to use it to bug other people but don't like them bugging you in response.
Phone first and computer second describes the Symbian-based phones fairly well. If you never bother to take advantage of the ability to install thrid-party software, or the calendar function, or whatever, you can still just dial a number by typing it on the pad and you can view your contacts by clicking the function button with "Contacts" written on the screen beside it. The phone side of the interface for my N-Gage is basically just an expanded version of what's in my 8810 and you need never explore any of the rest of it.
We've already received two of these at work, one as early as 8am yesterday morning, local time. Fortunately our server-based anti-virus filter is on the ball: "Executable DOS/Windows programs are dangerous in email (kraencha.exe)"
Given that inserting the word "SPAM" into an email address is a typical way of attempting to block spam, such that email harvesters might remove the word "SPAM", the trick is to have an email address that legitimately contains the word SPAM, preferably after the @, such that email harvesters bugger up the address. Spamcop.net and Spamgourmet.com both offer this feature. Makes life even harder for the little bots if you put a "NO" before the "SPAM", eg: blah@NOSPAMcop.net, then include a human readable "my address has no no in it".
Can you require users to MSG a bot with a password before joining a channel, or be kicked? Anyone got a good site for IRC bots?
I'm considering proposing an IRC network across our group for real-time multi-person chatting -- rather than Messenger or ICQ. There are so many nice things about the very mature IRC system that gets drowned out by all the pre-teens on public IRC networks, it's worth exploring.
Not meaning to be snooty or anything, but in another thread I commented that I tend to be ahead of the trend. I've been using a personal ad-filtering proxy or plug in for at least three years, probably more like four. I should become a futurist.
I'm in that demgraphic and I walked away from prime-time TV and moved to games years ago. However, I find myself drifting away from games now towards DVDs. Given that I'm regularly ahead of the trend (scarily so), I suggest that TV, movie and advertising exectives leapfrog games and direct their attention directly at DVDs. Make "TV series" for sale as DVDs rather than for broadcast. Simultaneously release movies to cinemas and DVD. Nothing wrong with "direct to DVD".
Oh, and advertising companies, give up -- DVDs can make more than enough money to pay for themselves without needing ads, while ads will reduce demand. If I was an advertising comapny I'd specialise on releasing demos, previews, trailers, shareware, "lite" versions on P2P networks. Or possibly coupons -- "Ads" need to contain some sort of value to the person exposed to them or they will be considered to devalue whatever they're attached to.
On the contrary, if MS are contending that he's domain squatting, the fact that he'd already advertised a business, printed cards, etc may well save him.
There is absolutely no way in the world that I or anyone with half a brain would ever confuse "Microsoft" with "Mike Rowe Soft". When I first read it as a URL I didn't realise that it was supposed to sound the same -- it doesn't look similar at all. Even when you only hear it, as soon as you realise that "Mike Rowe Soft" involves a guy called Mike Rowe you KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that you're not dealing with Microsoft.
If Microsoft really think that their customers would be confused, they have an even lower opinion of them than I thought possible.
Don't make them an offer. It seems that the big catch here is that Mike made a $10,000 offer to Microsoft ('s lawyers?), and that single act essentially made their case that it was a bad-faith registration.
I seriously hope that the law isn't so broken that a throw-away high-dollar amount to sell something you never intended to sell proves anything. We don't want to sell the house I live in, but if someone offered us $5million for it we'd probably take it. The market would never usually pay that amount, but then we wouldn't normally sell it.
Surely this is seen, in law as well as in reality, as a "I don't want to sell, but if you really want to buy the price will have a lot of zeros." sort of thing.
I had a similar post in mind; Remember when Yahoo was a decent contents page for the 'Net then became a "portal", remember when Altavista was a decent search engine then became a portal? I use Google for searches and occassionally as a news agregator, if they let these functions slide as they devote time to stuff I don't care about I'm going to have to start looking for a new search engine.
Also, 80% of men find that they get better service if they wear a suit -- the other 20% either don't own a suit or never leave the house with anything else on.
"Are you judging that by it's cover? Because I don't think you're supposed to do that."
There are already over 100 entries (I've sent something like 11) and since the only way to get a screenshot is to power each one up in an emulator the guys running the compo were already in a lot of trouble before it was posted on Slashdot.
That said, I recommend that everyone give it a go. The (Windows only?) editor makes it trivially easy to design a playfield. I did a couple based on some well known Game of Life patterns, I'm sure some/.ers can come up with something even geekier.
It was probably something by Electrostatic off of MP3.com. My MP3 collection comes from my CD collection and MP3.com, plus a few other scattered sources (a bunch of new stuff from 8bitpeoples for example - The AxelF collection is superb.).
Of course, I was downloading MODs well before then. Can't imagine what the first one was. Something starting with a number probably since I'm guessing I found an FTP archive and typed mget *.
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Ah. I would tend to think that the only solution then would be to ban IM clients that require an off-site server and either use something like Jabber with a local server or as I suggested a closed, monitored IRC network.
I, like most of the/.ers not in your country, don't know what the new laws mean, so a summary would be handy.
Aside from that, I'm seriously leaning towards a group-wide IRC network rather than using IM for business. Turn on all the security, install a few bots (help/faq, admin, relaying messages, etc) and log everything -- that would probably cover all legislative requirements there might be.
I've re-written my own code after finding a vastly superior way of doing something. Every so often you just have to chuck the dead-end code away and start again. Sure, you might get new bugs -- same for any code change -- be you wouldn't re-write it if it didn't solve a lot more problems that it was likely to cause. Just because a user doesn't see anything wrong with the first version, doesn't mean it doesn't have serious problems underneath.
The Catweasel Mk3 is a PCI card with, amongst other things, two old-school 9-pin sub-D digital joystick ports. I believe there are Linux drivers, so this may help plenty of/.ers, but I'm still a Windows person and I'm hanging out for Windows drivers for these ports. Anyone feel like making my year?
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Why doesn't MS just collapse its business to the profitable divisions, then hire some managers with a clue?
I visited the CyberKnights web page which was yellow on black. I'm in a brighly lit room with a bright LCD screen -- now I have to wait for my corneas to grow back.
I hate the car in general. I love my mobile phone. It's the not mobile phone's fault if you only want to use it to bug other people but don't like them bugging you in response.
Phone first and computer second describes the Symbian-based phones fairly well. If you never bother to take advantage of the ability to install thrid-party software, or the calendar function, or whatever, you can still just dial a number by typing it on the pad and you can view your contacts by clicking the function button with "Contacts" written on the screen beside it. The phone side of the interface for my N-Gage is basically just an expanded version of what's in my 8810 and you need never explore any of the rest of it.
Can't it just be bolted to the ISS? Heck, coat the ISS in old satellites as a form of armour.
We've already received two of these at work, one as early as 8am yesterday morning, local time. Fortunately our server-based anti-virus filter is on the ball: "Executable DOS/Windows programs are dangerous in email (kraencha.exe)"
Given that inserting the word "SPAM" into an email address is a typical way of attempting to block spam, such that email harvesters might remove the word "SPAM", the trick is to have an email address that legitimately contains the word SPAM, preferably after the @, such that email harvesters bugger up the address. Spamcop.net and Spamgourmet.com both offer this feature. Makes life even harder for the little bots if you put a "NO" before the "SPAM", eg: blah@NOSPAMcop.net, then include a human readable "my address has no no in it".
I'm considering proposing an IRC network across our group for real-time multi-person chatting -- rather than Messenger or ICQ. There are so many nice things about the very mature IRC system that gets drowned out by all the pre-teens on public IRC networks, it's worth exploring.
Not meaning to be snooty or anything, but in another thread I commented that I tend to be ahead of the trend. I've been using a personal ad-filtering proxy or plug in for at least three years, probably more like four. I should become a futurist.
Oh, and advertising companies, give up -- DVDs can make more than enough money to pay for themselves without needing ads, while ads will reduce demand. If I was an advertising comapny I'd specialise on releasing demos, previews, trailers, shareware, "lite" versions on P2P networks. Or possibly coupons -- "Ads" need to contain some sort of value to the person exposed to them or they will be considered to devalue whatever they're attached to.
On the contrary, if MS are contending that he's domain squatting, the fact that he'd already advertised a business, printed cards, etc may well save him.
If Microsoft really think that their customers would be confused, they have an even lower opinion of them than I thought possible.
Surely this is seen, in law as well as in reality, as a "I don't want to sell, but if you really want to buy the price will have a lot of zeros." sort of thing.
I had a similar post in mind; Remember when Yahoo was a decent contents page for the 'Net then became a "portal", remember when Altavista was a decent search engine then became a portal? I use Google for searches and occassionally as a news agregator, if they let these functions slide as they devote time to stuff I don't care about I'm going to have to start looking for a new search engine.
Real pictures. Wake me when they've got more than a cheap render to show off.
"Are you judging that by it's cover? Because I don't think you're supposed to do that."
That said, I recommend that everyone give it a go. The (Windows only?) editor makes it trivially easy to design a playfield. I did a couple based on some well known Game of Life patterns, I'm sure some /.ers can come up with something even geekier.
Of course, I was downloading MODs well before then. Can't imagine what the first one was. Something starting with a number probably since I'm guessing I found an FTP archive and typed mget *.
Ah. I would tend to think that the only solution then would be to ban IM clients that require an off-site server and either use something like Jabber with a local server or as I suggested a closed, monitored IRC network.
Aside from that, I'm seriously leaning towards a group-wide IRC network rather than using IM for business. Turn on all the security, install a few bots (help/faq, admin, relaying messages, etc) and log everything -- that would probably cover all legislative requirements there might be.
I've re-written my own code after finding a vastly superior way of doing something. Every so often you just have to chuck the dead-end code away and start again. Sure, you might get new bugs -- same for any code change -- be you wouldn't re-write it if it didn't solve a lot more problems that it was likely to cause. Just because a user doesn't see anything wrong with the first version, doesn't mean it doesn't have serious problems underneath.
Fear anyone that weighs the same as a duck?
The Catweasel Mk3 is a PCI card with, amongst other things, two old-school 9-pin sub-D digital joystick ports. I believe there are Linux drivers, so this may help plenty of /.ers, but I'm still a Windows person and I'm hanging out for Windows drivers for these ports. Anyone feel like making my year?
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