I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in the Netherlands the provider is obliged to give you the unlock code for a nominal fee after one year, so you can switch to a different provider if you want (or get the cheap 'sim-only' contract). You can just calculate what is the best deal.
You're not going to use a phone without a provider anyway.
Steve Jobs' assistants are not the company leader, they are mere employees
Steve Jobs is not only the leader of the Apple company, he also is the public face of it. If he (or his proxies) respond to requests, the image of the company goes up. If the requests are ignored, the image goes down.
There's more to leading a modern company than sitting on your fat ass
watching the dollars roll in. People don't like the 'big cheese smoking cigars' image anymore. Besides, are you saying your famous manager would have just ignored and lost the customer? He'd be a famous failure soon, especially in this '500 companies waiting to serve the same thing for the same price' era.
This is what Verisign answered when I asked them the same question last year (and then refused the stupid automated reply):
In response to your email, when this company submitted their request for a digital certificate, we followed our standard authenticiation & verification policies to make sure of the following:
1. That the company, Click Yes To Continue, is indeed a legitimate company and has the right to conduct business under this company name, which was confirmed using an online, 3rd party web site for validating companies located in Canada. and 2. Received a valid phone bill from the company, in which we used to call the company back & confirm the order.
Please note that when a company obtaina code signing certificate, we DO NOT validate their code, as the customer has to agree to our certificate policies before even submitting their requets online.
Therefore, we did not issue a certificate to a 'fake company'. However, we will forward your email to our internal security department and Verisign Lawyers to see if this company is indeed distributing fraudulent code using a certificate obtained through Verisign.
Actually they do, but only for large amounts of damage.
The problems they will face are the things that you can't buy insurance for, like the cost of not running the network for a few days, not having room for employees and students, things like that.
I downloaded it, and it was the same as the version on XMPS' homepage. We'll never know if it changed throughout though, unless this AC shows the version he downloaded.
Instead of sueing, the slashdot people could ask Google nicely to not cache their pages. They do not cache some pages, so they will probably comply (I don't see why they won't).
As for the comments being owned by the poster, they posted them with the intent of slashdot showing them. So if they wouldn't want slashdot to allow for them being cached, they probably shouldn't have posted it.
A more interesting question would be what would happen if they wanted slashdot to remove the posting though.
You can allways install a proxy, as the typical proxy doesn't understand these URLs either. They try to resolve www.blah.com%2fpage.html and that won't work, so they return an error. No need to filter things...
The implication for the spammers that want to implement this is that they have to contruct a separate email for everyone. Without that, the bandwith they spend for sending someone a spam is only they space it takes for their address. Now they spend the same amount of bandwith as the receivers, as they have to send their email (with some clever formatting to identify the receiver) separately for each receiver.
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I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in the Netherlands the provider is obliged to give you the unlock code for a nominal fee after one year, so you can switch to a different provider if you want (or get the cheap 'sim-only' contract). You can just calculate what is the best deal.
You're not going to use a phone without a provider anyway.
- Steve Jobs' assistants are not the company leader, they are mere employees
- Steve Jobs is not only the leader of the Apple company, he also is the public face of it. If he (or his proxies) respond to requests, the image of the company goes up. If the requests are ignored, the image goes down.
There's more to leading a modern company than sitting on your fat ass watching the dollars roll in. People don't like the 'big cheese smoking cigars' image anymore. Besides, are you saying your famous manager would have just ignored and lost the customer? He'd be a famous failure soon, especially in this '500 companies waiting to serve the same thing for the same price' era.Actually you can kill the screensaver from the ctrl-alt-del menu in Windows 95. This was fixed in Windows 98 though.
Obviously, nothing happened afterwards.
Actually they do, but only for large amounts of damage.
The problems they will face are the things that you can't buy insurance for, like the cost of not running the network for a few days, not having room for employees and students, things like that.
Combine this:
1. Corel is trying to port Photopaint to Linux using the winelib
2. Corel is (co)developing WINE
Now how could it be so that Photopaint only uses calls that work with WINE?
I downloaded it, and it was the same as the version on XMPS' homepage. We'll never know if it changed throughout though, unless this AC shows the version he downloaded.
Instead of sueing, the slashdot people could ask Google nicely to not cache their pages. They do not cache some pages, so they will probably comply (I don't see why they won't).
As for the comments being owned by the poster, they posted them with the intent of slashdot showing them. So if they wouldn't want slashdot to allow for them being cached, they probably shouldn't have posted it.
A more interesting question would be what would happen if they wanted slashdot to remove the posting though.
You can allways install a proxy, as the typical proxy doesn't understand these URLs either. They try to resolve www.blah.com%2fpage.html and that won't work, so they return an error. No need to filter things...
Are there actually people out there who believe this kind of news is true? (wish there werent)
Does anyone recall that old post that was about proving if santa could really fly and deliver all those packages? (I'm pretty sure the authors have :)
The implication for the spammers that want to implement this is that they have to contruct a separate email for everyone. Without that, the bandwith they spend for sending someone a spam is only they space it takes for their address. Now they spend the same amount of bandwith as the receivers, as they have to send their email (with some clever formatting to identify the receiver) separately for each receiver.
This does apply to scientific explanations though. You make it seem silly by adding silly explanations.