Some people in the design business say the best way to learn what the WWW will look like in six months is to keep up with Jeff's famous www.zeldman.com site.
Does that mean that in six months the entire web will be.... ORANGE? Noooooooooooooooo!
I tried it out. I asked it to record The Simpsons, which it did. I went to watch it, and it was the lowest-quality RealAudio stream I'd ever seen/heard. I'm sure that has in large part to do with the slashdotting, and they did say they're getting a new T1 in a few days.. but for now it's miserable. The picture is horrible and the sound is literally inaudible.
Can we please refrain from the "on behalf of all Slashdot readers" crap? I can't see how you can possibly think that you speak for all slashdot readers. You don't. I for one, think that there are a few of those posts that deserve to be taken down. If you'll refer back to the original story, another poster made the same assinine comment that he was speaking for all slashdot readers, and he got a number of responses assuring him that he wasn't. Making generalizations like you just did serves no purpose other than making you look like an ass.
sounds like you picked the wrong competitor to try..I used dotster.com (a/. advertiser) and I've had nothing but success.. and it only cost me fifteen bucks.
I hope you're willing to be flown all over the country defending anyone who's violating a copyright, because in reality the situation is no different here. Sure, some of those posts were not offending. If Microsoft knew what was smart they'd withdraw their demand to have those posts taken down. But they have every right to demand the withdrawal of the ones that actually do violate the copyrights, and there are some that do.
Okay. Since no one seems to be getting this (I guess it's just too easy to not look at the facts when you see that Microsoft is trying to get something taken down), this will be my last post on the subject.
The whole point is that it is not censorship when something infringing a copyright is rectified. It was not just "speech critical of certain companies." Some of those posts were actual copyright infringements. Some weren't. The ones that were need to be taken down. It's not censorhip. The other ones need to be left. This is not a censorhip issue people!
To support gates in an action such as this is ludicrous. And weather you draw your paycheck from microsoft is irrelevant. It is a galling example of cult-like behavior for you to agree with microsoft that the dissenting voice must be silenced.
Listen, when the "dissenting voice" means "copyright infringement" then I don't think I'm taking a ludicrous position when I say I think it should be silenced. I'm all for every opinion being heard. But many of those posts were blatant copyright infringement and MS has every right to want to have them taken down.
Oh please. So now anyone who doesn't agree with you is one of Gates' minions? I can't believe slashdot has come to this. It's really become the case that any and all dissenting voices are either moderated into oblivion or dismissed as "crazy." I for one do not work for Microsoft, and never have. I have a dissenting opinion not because I was told to, but for other reasons. Gross generalizations can only serve to make the one making them look foolish.
What? I'm sorry, but I just don't see the connection between mapping the surface of the moon, and turning space into a "junkyard." I think it's high time that space is de-mystified (although that's probably much easier said than done), and one of the first steps towards that goal is taking it out of the realm of a government-only territory.
It's not at all unusual for large corporate complexes to have streets named after them. Can we please stop trying to bash microsoft about every little thing and stick to the real issues?
But are they really? It may say that on the comments pages, but as we've seen the administrators seem to have no compunctions about taking the posts and publishing them elsewhere to make a profit (that fact that it is a profit that will be donated to charity is of no relevance).
No, but they (gov't) should put yo' ass in jail. If they could find you... You do know that the FBI reads/., right?
Do you really believe that slashdot wouldn't censor a list of credit card numbers? I think you're being a bit too idealistic here.
I'm 100% certain that when i say this, i am saying it for all of Slashdot's readers:-
Whenever someone says "I'm 100% certain that... I'm speaking for [an entire group]... when I say this," you can be pretty sure that they're dead wrong. You sir, are dead wrong. Please read my post below for why I disagree with you.
First off, your write-up is a bit misleading. It's not as if Microsoft is asking you to take down posts that are just saying "Microsoft sucks!" or something like that. The posts they've mentioned, from what I've seen, all are clear examples of copyright infringement. They're not asking you to censor anyone's particular ideas on a subject, they're asking you to stop copyright infringement from taking place on your server.
Let's say slashdot allowed posters to add pictures to their posts. If someone decided to post a picture with some classified government information, let's say, would slashdot then object to taking that post down too? I can fully understand not wanting to start censoring things, but this seems to be a pretty clear-cut case to me. I know this is on a different level, but aren't you already kind of censoring what people post, with your lameness filters, as well as with some more stealthy methods? (that is, one can no longer submit a post with "first post" in the subject line) It's possible I'm missing something, so please do correct me if I am.
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so I'm not going to cry if my Karma goes down a bit.
A bit? Hmm...ask a the poster in sid=moderation whose karma went from 52 to -9 overnight, had his default post level changed to -1, and had all his previous posts changed to -1. Pretty darn unfair if you ask me. CmdrTaco should make this public if he's doing it.
Interesting question. I can't be of much help, but I remember a TV advertisement for some sort of nail-strengthening cream..the whole premise of the ad was that it takes a hell of a lot of force to open a can. it was a pretty amusing ad, the screen looked like a RoboCop vision field, and it zoomed in on the nail opening the can..then there was a readout on the display about the force required, and the dramatic conclusion (!) was the nail breaking.
oh well. hey, your breakdancing helicopter sounds cool. make an AVI of it and put it up for us to see.
It may even not run if you detach it. I don't think that vbs files are executable
They are executable, at least on my Win98 PC. Try saving a file with a.vbs extension and running it, it works. That's not to say I agree with anything else that the author of the parent said.
Sorry, buddy. You're just not right. While Eudora has a MAPI server, this worm was written specifically to interact with Outlook. If you'd take a look at the code before blabbing next time, you'd see that the thing won't work with Eudora at all.
It's insane to allow execution of arbitrary programs by naive users that arrive in your mailbox from unknown places.
Well, not being a naive user myself, I quite like the ability to run attachments with one (or two) clicks. So you're telling me that for the good of the less-experienced user I should have to go to extra trouble to do something? Maybe what we need is Outlook For Idiots, or something like that. But don't touch my mail program. There's just no need to.
Goodness me. It's Microsoft's fault for leaving a gun on the livingroom table where the kids can play with it. Or, equivalently, leaving the gate to their yard open where there is an empty swimming pool that kids can fall into.
Please provide a shred of support for that statement. Microsoft is not alone in letting users execute attachments. There's no way you can possibly blame Microsoft for this looking at it from a standpoint of the executablity of attachments.. they're far from alone in providing this feature.
I said: Many, many mail programs allow running of attachments just with a single click...
You said: That is utterly wrong. At best, java programs should be runnable, only in a sandbox. Or similarly restricted quasi-executables. Frankly, I don't see why *anyone* is better off by being able to execute attachments. Save them first, make them executable, then execute them. If that's too much work for you, you write a script yourself to do it. It's wrong for email programs to do this for you - it's an invitation to disaster as we've clearly seen.
Sorry, but it's not utterly wrong. Pegasus, Eudora, and many others provide the feature. You don't see why anyone's better off by being able to execute attachments? Are you kidding? I don't even think that's worth a response.
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Only the shareware version works on Visors and Palm IIIes. The full version doesn't because neither have a "hardware identifier" (according to the site). It should be fixed "within 6 hours" according to the site (before it was/.ed).
It doesn't work on the Palm IIIe either. It's not the shareware version that doesn't work, just the full version. The shareware works on Visors and IIIes. The problem is that the Visors and IIIes don't have "hardware identifiers." The site (before it went down) said that they'd have it fixed "within 6 hours."
The site also said (before it was/.'ed) that they would have a fix "within 6 hours." It also doesn't work on the Palm IIIe. Somethign about a missing hardware identifier?
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Does that mean that in six months the entire web will be.... ORANGE? Noooooooooooooooo!
I tried it out. I asked it to record The Simpsons, which it did. I went to watch it, and it was the lowest-quality RealAudio stream I'd ever seen/heard. I'm sure that has in large part to do with the slashdotting, and they did say they're getting a new T1 in a few days.. but for now it's miserable. The picture is horrible and the sound is literally inaudible.
How convenient you left out the most important part.
Just so you know, it's no longer 'alleged.' He didn't give much info, but roblimo confirmed the rumors here.
Can we please refrain from the "on behalf of all Slashdot readers" crap? I can't see how you can possibly think that you speak for all slashdot readers. You don't. I for one, think that there are a few of those posts that deserve to be taken down. If you'll refer back to the original story, another poster made the same assinine comment that he was speaking for all slashdot readers, and he got a number of responses assuring him that he wasn't. Making generalizations like you just did serves no purpose other than making you look like an ass.
Yes, you'd think there'd be a story on slashdot. But that's not the case. Read this and see how wrong you are. There was a DDoS.
sounds like you picked the wrong competitor to try..I used dotster.com (a /. advertiser) and I've had nothing but success.. and it only cost me fifteen bucks.
I hope you're willing to be flown all over the country defending anyone who's violating a copyright, because in reality the situation is no different here. Sure, some of those posts were not offending. If Microsoft knew what was smart they'd withdraw their demand to have those posts taken down. But they have every right to demand the withdrawal of the ones that actually do violate the copyrights, and there are some that do.
The whole point is that it is not censorship when something infringing a copyright is rectified. It was not just "speech critical of certain companies." Some of those posts were actual copyright infringements. Some weren't. The ones that were need to be taken down. It's not censorhip. The other ones need to be left. This is not a censorhip issue people!
Listen, when the "dissenting voice" means "copyright infringement" then I don't think I'm taking a ludicrous position when I say I think it should be silenced. I'm all for every opinion being heard. But many of those posts were blatant copyright infringement and MS has every right to want to have them taken down.
Oh please. So now anyone who doesn't agree with you is one of Gates' minions? I can't believe slashdot has come to this. It's really become the case that any and all dissenting voices are either moderated into oblivion or dismissed as "crazy." I for one do not work for Microsoft, and never have. I have a dissenting opinion not because I was told to, but for other reasons. Gross generalizations can only serve to make the one making them look foolish.
What? I'm sorry, but I just don't see the connection between mapping the surface of the moon, and turning space into a "junkyard." I think it's high time that space is de-mystified (although that's probably much easier said than done), and one of the first steps towards that goal is taking it out of the realm of a government-only territory.
It's not at all unusual for large corporate complexes to have streets named after them. Can we please stop trying to bash microsoft about every little thing and stick to the real issues?
But are they really? It may say that on the comments pages, but as we've seen the administrators seem to have no compunctions about taking the posts and publishing them elsewhere to make a profit (that fact that it is a profit that will be donated to charity is of no relevance).
No, but they (gov't) should put yo' ass in jail. If they could find you... You do know that the FBI reads /., right?
Do you really believe that slashdot wouldn't censor a list of credit card numbers? I think you're being a bit too idealistic here.
Whenever someone says "I'm 100% certain that ... I'm speaking for [an entire group] ... when I say this," you can be pretty sure that they're dead wrong. You sir, are dead wrong. Please read my post below for why I disagree with you.
Let's say slashdot allowed posters to add pictures to their posts. If someone decided to post a picture with some classified government information, let's say, would slashdot then object to taking that post down too? I can fully understand not wanting to start censoring things, but this seems to be a pretty clear-cut case to me. I know this is on a different level, but aren't you already kind of censoring what people post, with your lameness filters, as well as with some more stealthy methods? (that is, one can no longer submit a post with "first post" in the subject line) It's possible I'm missing something, so please do correct me if I am.
there's a version of slashcode available in php.
A bit? Hmm...ask a the poster in sid=moderation whose karma went from 52 to -9 overnight, had his default post level changed to -1, and had all his previous posts changed to -1. Pretty darn unfair if you ask me. CmdrTaco should make this public if he's doing it.
oh well. hey, your breakdancing helicopter sounds cool. make an AVI of it and put it up for us to see.
They are executable, at least on my Win98 PC. Try saving a file with a .vbs extension and running it, it works. That's not to say I agree with anything else that the author of the parent said.
Sorry, buddy. You're just not right. While Eudora has a MAPI server, this worm was written specifically to interact with Outlook. If you'd take a look at the code before blabbing next time, you'd see that the thing won't work with Eudora at all.
Well, not being a naive user myself, I quite like the ability to run attachments with one (or two) clicks. So you're telling me that for the good of the less-experienced user I should have to go to extra trouble to do something? Maybe what we need is Outlook For Idiots, or something like that. But don't touch my mail program. There's just no need to.
Goodness me. It's Microsoft's fault for leaving a gun on the livingroom table where the kids can play with it. Or, equivalently, leaving the gate to their yard open where there is an empty swimming pool that kids can fall into.
Please provide a shred of support for that statement. Microsoft is not alone in letting users execute attachments. There's no way you can possibly blame Microsoft for this looking at it from a standpoint of the executablity of attachments.. they're far from alone in providing this feature.
I said: Many, many mail programs allow running of attachments just with a single click...
You said: That is utterly wrong. At best, java programs should be runnable, only in a sandbox. Or similarly restricted quasi-executables. Frankly, I don't see why *anyone* is better off by being able to execute attachments. Save them first, make them executable, then execute them. If that's too much work for you, you write a script yourself to do it. It's wrong for email programs to do this for you - it's an invitation to disaster as we've clearly seen.
Sorry, but it's not utterly wrong. Pegasus, Eudora, and many others provide the feature. You don't see why anyone's better off by being able to execute attachments? Are you kidding? I don't even think that's worth a response.
Only the shareware version works on Visors and Palm IIIes. The full version doesn't because neither have a "hardware identifier" (according to the site). It should be fixed "within 6 hours" according to the site (before it was /.ed).
It doesn't work on the Palm IIIe either. It's not the shareware version that doesn't work, just the full version. The shareware works on Visors and IIIes. The problem is that the Visors and IIIes don't have "hardware identifiers." The site (before it went down) said that they'd have it fixed "within 6 hours."
The site also said (before it was /.'ed) that they would have a fix "within 6 hours." It also doesn't work on the Palm IIIe. Somethign about a missing hardware identifier?