National Geographic has been doing a dismal job over the past few months, and there really are not enough players in the game. It's funny, in my experience most geeks really do like the great outdoors, so it seems a proper marriage to me!
I'm one of those outdoor geeks (backpacking, kayaking), and I have to disagree with your assesment of National Geographic's performace
Man, I read that to be total sarcasm. No matter what, you both can't be +5.
Maybe Dell was smarter than we gave them credit for a few months ago when they refused to recommend any one spyware removal product. Just imagine if they had and it turned out to be this debacle. Ouch. The PR would be horrid.
I am surprised that mass emailing is still profitable in America, with its restrictive new laws against spam. From India, cheaper connection costs and abundant IT expertise, in addition to laws which allow complete freedom of email, would seem to make India the much better choice for mass emailing business. How long till competition puts Mr. Richter out of business
Srividya, you're a genius! Let's let Indian spammers using Indian bandwidth and Indian IT send all of the spam to...Indians, since there's complete freedom of email.
It is the old chicken and the egg problem. It goes something like this I think...
Ahh, but that age old conundrum has finally been answered:
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the
headboard smoking a cigarette, with a satisfied smile on its face.
The egg, looking a bit pissed off, grabs the sheet, rolls over, and says,
"Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question! "
...solely to call InfoWorld and http-equiv "irresponsible" to publish that info. There won't be any technical rebuttal at all, I predict, since this is so cut and dried.
Infoworld should have posted a link to mozilla.org.
Darl: "They say if you want to get into an argument at the dinner table, start a conversation about religion or politics. I would argue that Linux is a cross between religion and politics. "
My worst satellite reception experience? I lost DirectTV *THREE TIMES* when the cable company came by over and over and cut my satellite wire, somehow thinking it was stolen cable (COX.
On private property? I'd have had their asses in court so fast their heads would be spinning.
IANAL, but could it be that the reason they backed away from this case is that they don't want the DMCA itself to undergo the judicial scrutiny that it would?
Seriously, though, this invention sounds like an absolute nightmare. Do you really want to know every time your wife fakes an orgasm? And trust me, if you're on Slashdot, she does.
Aww, c'mon. If you're on Slashdot, you're probably faking the wife, too!
The ads run on Windows Media Player software, which an estimated 8 of 10 Internet users have on their computers.
Bwah ha ha ha ha! Let all of the Windoze drones using IE with WMP pay for my web surfing. I won't notice their pitiful little attempts to serve ads to my Mac.
I've been getting at least 30 a day from these putzes. Imagine my shock and horror when the first crop landed in the my inbox (and knocked my Bayes percentage down from 99.6 to 99.5% in the process).
Turns out my spam filter (SpamSieve for OS X; a great product!) has a pref that's enabled by default to honor the Habeas(tm) header regardless of the content of the story. That puppy got turned off really fast...
I was going to submit this story, but I was going to wait 'til they announced the public execution of the guy who is single-handedly destroying faith in their business model.
-1 Offtopic? I posted the freaking topic and that's about how fast I got spammed after posting the freaking topic and it's modded off-topic?
You're welcome, oh-clueless moderator....
Sontag said there is a possibility that the first round of lawsuits could include U.K. companies, but it was likely to focus on companies maintaining large Linux deployments with whom SCOsource has already had "unsuccessful" discussions.
Have you tried creating a folder in your home directory. Create folers inside that one for your categories (Development, Graphics...) add an alias for each app into the correct folder. Drop that folder into your dock, right(ctrl)-click on it and you have your start menu style app launcher.
Even better, try:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/XMenu.dmg. gz
I found out that this got posted (I submitted it last night) when the first spam rolled in. Thank you throwaway email addresses! Bastard scum 419 scammer/spammers.
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All that I read into it is that the iPod will be able to play WMA's as it can do MP3's and MP4's (AAC) as it does now. The capability to play AAC's was added to my iPod by a simple ROM update (2nd generation 20 gig).
What's more interesting is that iTunes would have to be tweaked to to be able to know about them to be able to synch them. And if it knows about them, it should be able to play them; I can't see having the ability to organize without the ability to play them. And if it can play them, who needs Windows Media player?
What doesn't make sense is what do they need HP for? You think Apple's going to hand over their ROM code or source code to iTunes to HP? Yeah, right. I'm sure there are still plenty of people who remember how one of their PC partners ended up sticking Apple's QuickTime code into Video for Windows....
And what does HP get out of those? Companies who pee into MS' sandbox usually end up having licensing problems, or price changes on their Windows and Office licenses.
I'm getting roughly the same amount (~200/day...the perils of having the same email address since the innocent days of the internet).
The big difference I've seen, though, is they're all of the penis/ebay/paris hilton/viagra/drugs variety, all from open proxies and owned windoze boxen.
What's totally vanished from my mailbox is spam from any company that pretended to have any legitimacy, the ones who sincerely pretended that I opted in, and the ones who didn't try to hide their origins.
I wonder if they scoured their "opt-in" lists and dropped me (doubtful), or if they're gearing up for the The Big Push CAN-SPAM or not, I'm not going to press any of their damn links to unsubscribe. I'll still report them to Spamcop.
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I'm one of those outdoor geeks (backpacking, kayaking), and I have to disagree with your assesment of National Geographic's performace
Man, I read that to be total sarcasm. No matter what, you both can't be +5.
Maybe Dell was smarter than we gave them credit for a few months ago when they refused to recommend any one spyware removal product. Just imagine if they had and it turned out to be this debacle. Ouch. The PR would be horrid.
...if google linked to slashdot like that? I mean, what would we call that? A slashgle? A googdot'ing? :-)
My method would have been to look at my corpus and add words with the lowest probability. He must have had too much time on his hands.
Srividya, you're a genius! Let's let Indian spammers using Indian bandwidth and Indian IT send all of the spam to...Indians, since there's complete freedom of email.
Ahh, but that age old conundrum has finally been answered:
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the headboard smoking a cigarette, with a satisfied smile on its face. The egg, looking a bit pissed off, grabs the sheet, rolls over, and says, "Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question! "
Or anything else, such as the versions of ssl or perl. Look at how hideous my Mandrake 9.2 looked out of the box:
"Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.47 (Mandrake Linux/6.3.92mdk) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.1 mod_ssl/2.0.47 OpenSSL/0.9.7b PHP/4.3.2 "
Quickly changed to show:
"Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0" as reported by netcraft. ServerTokens Minor is my friend. Not too much info, but Apache 2 gets the credit. :)
Infoworld should have posted a link to mozilla.org.
Darl: "They say if you want to get into an argument at the dinner table, start a conversation about religion or politics. I would argue that Linux is a cross between religion and politics. "
On private property? I'd have had their asses in court so fast their heads would be spinning.
No wonder the Brits lost their Empire....
This is SO WRONG on SO MANY different levels. Ay corrumba.
It sure needs to, like, oh, shrinkwrap laws.
You mean it's not a joke??? What kind of news for nerds lags a month behind spammers?
Aww, c'mon. If you're on Slashdot, you're probably faking the wife, too!
Bwah ha ha ha ha! Let all of the Windoze drones using IE with WMP pay for my web surfing. I won't notice their pitiful little attempts to serve ads to my Mac.
I was going to submit this story, but I was going to wait 'til they announced the public execution of the guy who is single-handedly destroying faith in their business model.
...how long does it take a BSD guy to turn a dynamic page (.php) into a static page once you've been slashdotted?
-1 Offtopic? I posted the freaking topic and that's about how fast I got spammed after posting the freaking topic and it's modded off-topic? You're welcome, oh-clueless moderator....
"Pay up."
"Go eff yourself."
"Waaaah."
Even better, try: http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/XMenu.dmg. gz
It's brand new from the DEVONthink folks.
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Look all around you, Paul. How much of your computing world has Apple changed? A damn site more than you're crediting them with, that's for sure.....
All that I read into it is that the iPod will be able to play WMA's as it can do MP3's and MP4's (AAC) as it does now. The capability to play AAC's was added to my iPod by a simple ROM update (2nd generation 20 gig).
What's more interesting is that iTunes would have to be tweaked to to be able to know about them to be able to synch them. And if it knows about them, it should be able to play them; I can't see having the ability to organize without the ability to play them. And if it can play them, who needs Windows Media player?
What doesn't make sense is what do they need HP for? You think Apple's going to hand over their ROM code or source code to iTunes to HP? Yeah, right. I'm sure there are still plenty of people who remember how one of their PC partners ended up sticking Apple's QuickTime code into Video for Windows....
And what does HP get out of those? Companies who pee into MS' sandbox usually end up having licensing problems, or price changes on their Windows and Office licenses.
The big difference I've seen, though, is they're all of the penis/ebay/paris hilton/viagra/drugs variety, all from open proxies and owned windoze boxen. What's totally vanished from my mailbox is spam from any company that pretended to have any legitimacy, the ones who sincerely pretended that I opted in, and the ones who didn't try to hide their origins.
I wonder if they scoured their "opt-in" lists and dropped me (doubtful), or if they're gearing up for the The Big Push CAN-SPAM or not, I'm not going to press any of their damn links to unsubscribe. I'll still report them to Spamcop.