It won't be long before this service is outlawed under the DMCA as "security circumvention" or banned by our new Office of Homeland Security as a "possible tool for use by terrorists". After all, these days, just mentioning terrorism will cause any silly law to be passed.
As much as I like and respect the power of computers, it occurs to me that there are a number of higher priorities for schools, especially poor ones. How about books that aren't 25 years out of date? How about hot lunches for kids who can't afford to eat? How about pencils and other supplies? How about furnaces and boilers that actually work? How about kicking in a subsidy to help pay teachers what they're worth instead of keeping them at the poverty level?
Microsoft and RedHat will continue to play their little P.R. power games, using our schools as pawns. But each time I hear a story like this, I lose a little more respect for each of them.
The DVD version has been and gone. It came out at the same time, but failed to sell, so they stopped producing it. I have the non-DVD version, and frankly it sucks. The articles are all but impossible to read (they're just scanned pages, rather than scanned and OCR'ed) and the presentation interface needs a major overhaul.
What caused the big bang? How was it initiated? What were the bounds of the "universe" as it were before the big bang?
Stephen Hawking touched on this a bit in one of his books. The questions are largely irrelevant because the laws of physics would have been completely different "before" the Big Bang. Much like they theoretically break down completely in a singularity.
I honestly can't explain it better than that. I suggest you pick up a copy of "A Brief History of Time", which is a pretty good lay-person's book on astrophysics and quantum mechanics.
As I understand it, they can estimate how much matter there *should* be, based on what we know of the universe and of physics, and also based on the matter was can see now. They aren't just pulling the numbers out of thin air.
Yeah, I recycled it for the same reason that/. recycled their story (they just changed the name of the MP3 player in question). Personally, I thought it was amusing that I didn't have to change a word of the post and it still fit.
Oh goody. Another over-priced MP3 player with too many bells and whistles. And a price that's way higher than it should be.
All I want is a decent MP3 player. I want one that supports some sort of smart media card, supports at least 128MB, and has USB. And most importantly, doesn't cost $400! Is that too much to ask? The Diamond Rio 500 came closest to that, but of course it's not made anymore (and cost too much anyway). Instead, SonicBlue produces the vastly inferior Rio 600 or the way over-priced 800. If I can buy a camcorder for $300, a freaking MP3 player oughta be under $100.
I don't need a built-in CD player (that's why I have MP3's fer crissakes!) I don't need a built-in hard drive. I don't need a goddamn built-in toaster oven. I just want a little MP3 player that holds more than 5 songs that I can stick in my pocket when I go for a walk. I certainly don't need to put my entire MP3 collection on it all at once.
Let's see a cheap MP3 player that does one thing exceptionally well, instead of an overpriced MP3 player that does half a dozen things poorly.
Oh goody. Another over-priced MP3 player with too many bells and whistles. And a price that's way higher than it should be.
All I want is a decent MP3. I want one that supports some sort of smart media card, supports at least 128MB, and has USB. And most importantly, doesn't cost $400! Is that too much to ask? The Diamond Rio 500 came closest to that, but of course it's not made anymore (and cost too much anyway). Instead, SonicBlue produces the vastly inferior Rio 600 or the way over-priced 800. If I can buy a camcorder for $300, a freaking MP3 player oughta be under $100.
I don't need a built-in CD player (that's why I have MP3's fer crissakes!) I don't need a built-in hard drive. I don't need a goddamn built-in toaster oven. I just want a little MP3 player that holds more than 5 songs that I can stick in my pocket when I go for a walk. I certainly don't need to put my entire MP3 collection on it all at once.
Let's see a cheap MP3 player that does one thing exceptionally well, instead of an overpriced MP3 player that does half a dozen things poorly.
WIPO Arbitrators Stern In Domain 'Hijacking' Rulings
By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND,
19 Oct 2001, 5:20 PM CST
A pair of companies - including Swiss food giant Nestle - have received unusually stern rebukes from international arbitrators who say the firms attempted to abuse a procedure that is supposed to sort out disputes over the ownership of Internet domain names.
In two separate decisions published this week, arbitrators refereeing disputes on behalf of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the companies that had accused others of being cybersquatters were in fact attempting to "reverse hijack" the Internet addresses in question.
Findings of reverse hijacking are relatively rare under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), even though the system for settling disputes over conflicts between trademark holder and domain-name registrants has seen more than 4,500 cases in less than two years.
But even rarer was the severity of the spanking received by Nestle at the hands of three arbitrators assigned by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Also accused of reverse hijacking - but reprimanded less harshly by another trio of WIPO arbitrators - was Boston-area software company Aspen Grove, which had attempted to claim the domain AspenGrove.com from a family in Salt Lake City.
Nestle had turned to WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center, one of four organizations accredited to resolve UDRP complaints, in a bid to evict another Swiss company, Pro Fiducia Treuhand AG, from the Internet address Maggi.com.
Nestle said the registration of Maggi.com clearly encroached on the trademark it holds for its Maggi brand of sauces and soups.
It complained that Pro Fiducia Treuhand, a financial and management consulting firm with some 40 employees, had no legitimate claim on the Maggi.com domain and that it had registered and used the address in bad faith because, after five years, the company had not made use of the domain for a Web site.
But Pro Fiducia Treuhand says there's a reason it is listed as the holder of Maggi.com: its chairman, Romeo Maggi, had provided the company contact information when he registered the domain for his personal use in 1996.
In his response to WIPO after Nestle's complaint, Maggi said he still plans to use the address to build a Web site for his family and that he had informed Nestle's lawyers of that when they contacted him in 1999. Maggi said appeals from Nestle for the domain actually led to a meeting between the two sides in Geneva a year ago.
The panel of WIPO arbitrators, led by Washington, D.C.-based international business law specialist Dennis Foster, ruled it was clear that Maggi had a legitimate interest in the Maggi.com domain. But what seemed to annoy the trio was that nowhere in Nestle's complaint did its lawyers mention the existence of the Pro Fiducia Treuhand chairman.
"The panel finds the failure of (Nestle)... to set out any of the clearly lengthy background to this dispute is surprising," the panel said in a written ruling.
Pointing out that Nestle had certified in its complaint that the information it provided was, "to the best of (its) knowledge, complete and accurate," the arbitrators wrote: "The panel does not see how that could properly have been said."
"(Nestle) has... avoided the full story," the panel wrote. "As a result of its rather lengthy dealings with Mr. Maggi, (Nestle) was aware that Mr. Maggi intended to use the domain name for personal use, yet (it) ignores these negotiations in the complainant and fails to even mention (Maggi's) alleged personal interest in the domain name."
"In fact the initial complaint misstated the registration record by failing to name Mr. Maggi as the administrative contact, an error later corrected when noted by the WIPO staff," the panel said. "Had Mr. Maggi failed to defend his position, perhaps complainant's lack of candor might have resulted in a decision in its favor."
"Having instead been exposed, that lack of candor concerning material facts, tied with the lack of legal merit to (Nestle's) position, leads us to the conclusion that this complaint was brought in bad faith and constitutes an abuse of the administrative proceeding."
In the case of the battling Aspen Groves, the workflow-software company from the east coast had complained that Michael Clark of Salt Lake City had no right to AspenGrove.com and that, as in the Maggi.com dispute, the lack of an active Web site at the address suggested a cybersquatter was at work.
Lawyers for Aspen Grove argued that, "by continuing to use the domain name without offering any or little content or any legitimate business use, (Clark) has confused (Aspen Grove's) prospective clients and business partners and has diluted the value of (its) trademark and reputation."
In a response filed on his behalf, Clark's lawyers blasted the notion that the lack of a commercial Web site constituted bad-faith use on an Internet address.
"Domain names may be owned by individuals and utilized solely for personal use," Clark's lawyers argued. "The rule advocated by (Aspen Grove) - that maintenance of a domain name without construction of a commercial Web site is tantamount to bad faith - ignores the history of the Internet and the World Wide Web, is inconsistent with the (UDRP), and is generally poor public policy."
Clark told Newsbytes that his family has used the domain - which reminded them of the aspens around their home at the time the address was registered - for personal communication, including e-mail and the sharing of family photos, for more than four years.
But the real clincher for the WIPO panel led by Mark Partridge, an intellectual property lawyer in Chicago, was that Clark had registered his domain in January of 1997 - a date which was not only before Aspen Grove applied to trademark its name, but which also pre-dated Aspen Grove's incorporation as a company.
Argued Clark's lawyers, "The complaint is based on the incredible premise that a business is ipso facto entitled to a domain name despite the fact that a private individual has registered and continuously used the domain name before the business even existed."
The WIPO arbitrators agreed, saying Aspen Grove's weak claim on a trademark and the fact that Clark's registration was two years ahead of the software company's incorporation justified a reverse-hijacking ruling.
"The panel finds the complainant, even though apparently knowledgeable and assisted by reputable counsel, nonetheless chose to file a complaint without a colorable claim and thus abused the ICANN proceeding," the arbitrators wrote.
Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com .
My dad had a setup years ago that was basically a wooden box with a lens. Inside the box, he put a 13" TV with the picture reversed and upside down (I have no idea ho he managed that). He projected it on the wall. It looked fantastic. The most expensive part was the lens.
The only real downside was that you could really only see it well if the lights were turned down (or off).
The problem with your basic lesbian, see, is that they don't like men. Your typical male ST geek doesn't get enough action in a (predominantly) non-lesbian universe. How bad would that suck to be in one where the women are *all* lesbians?
What are those technical details? I know they sell TV sets with dual tuners for Picture in Picture that only need one cable hookup. For those of us who hook the cable right into the back of the TV(no cable box) why wouldn't this be an easy thing to? (with additional hardware of coures)
They wouldn't just have to have dual tuners. Straight dual-RF would be pretty easy. The problem is that they'd also have to deal with dual cable boxes, which means twice as much hardware. And the interface would become exponentially more complicated, as you try to explain which input is connected to which cable box, and try to configure two separate IR blasters running on the same frequencies, etc. etc.
Right now, TiVo is not being marketed to power users (which are the ones who would want dual-tuner capability). They're trying to sell it as a VCR replacement.
Your understanding is unfortunately incorrect. The stand-alone TiVo's only have a single tuner, so this software update won't do any good (although there are a few other nice toys in the update...). Also, don't expect the 2.5 update for standalones until probably Q1 of next year.
That said, there has been considerable discussion in the TiVo forums on what it would take to make a dual-tuner stand-alone TiVo, and frankly, it doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon. You'll notice that the dual-tuner boxen are all satellite-related (either DirectTV TiVo or Microsoft's UltimateTV).
I fail to see how this will help. It seems to me that it will only confuse the consumer. You take the one piece of data that the average buyer uses as a benchmark (the MHz rating) and completely obscure it.
It seems to me that the consumer would be better served by AMD advertising in plain language why their chips are better than the competition's.
Look at it this way, if you went to the gas station and the pumps were only listed as "Formulas One, Two, and Three" instead of octane ratings, you'd likely buy the cheapest one instead of the one best suited to your needs.
Well, I guess that's one more place to add to the ever-growing places where I won't shop. Pretty soon I'm going to have to become a hermit and start hunting and foraging for food. There won't be any place else left for me to go.:(
I didn't used to care for them much, but lately, I've been reading them on my Palm PDA a lot and I've really grown to like them.
The problem with e-books as I see it is the same as the problem with music. The publishers don't release new material in an open format.
MS's.lit format is useless (especially on Palms), and I don't want to use a proprieatary reader to read $PUBLISHER's book.
When publishers quit trying to over-control the format, they'll make money at it. Look at Stephen King's book. He made like $500,000 off it, even though it was heavily pirated, but aside from bandwidth, there were no publishing costs.
I wish there were a better solution. Unfortunately, some of the sites I like to hit use javascript. Javascript is occasionally useful (more often than not, in fact). It seems that forsaking a technology simply because some people choose to abuse it isn't the way to go about doing things (*cough*napster*cough*).
So besides disabling Javascript, what else can we do? Is legislation a viable option? Complaining to the webmaster of the site with the evil js?
If only we'd see @Home put this much effort into cracking down on people who leave "File and printer sharing" turned on, or who are stupid enough to use their service without a firewall, or who run open mail relays, or who........
Slashdot Mirror
It won't be long before this service is outlawed under the DMCA as "security circumvention" or banned by our new Office of Homeland Security as a "possible tool for use by terrorists". After all, these days, just mentioning terrorism will cause any silly law to be passed.
As much as I like and respect the power of computers, it occurs to me that there are a number of higher priorities for schools, especially poor ones. How about books that aren't 25 years out of date? How about hot lunches for kids who can't afford to eat? How about pencils and other supplies? How about furnaces and boilers that actually work? How about kicking in a subsidy to help pay teachers what they're worth instead of keeping them at the poverty level?
Microsoft and RedHat will continue to play their little P.R. power games, using our schools as pawns. But each time I hear a story like this, I lose a little more respect for each of them.
The DVD version has been and gone. It came out at the same time, but failed to sell, so they stopped producing it. I have the non-DVD version, and frankly it sucks. The articles are all but impossible to read (they're just scanned pages, rather than scanned and OCR'ed) and the presentation interface needs a major overhaul.
FP
After fighting Magma:
"Hey, you're the guy that made my head hot! Well, you're not going to make my friends' heads hot, too!"
These file sharing programs are such hogs, do you need *that* much pr0n?
:)
Uh, *yeah*! Frankly, if you have to ask, you'll never understand.
What caused the big bang? How was it initiated? What were the bounds of the "universe" as it were before the big bang?
Stephen Hawking touched on this a bit in one of his books. The questions are largely irrelevant because the laws of physics would have been completely different "before" the Big Bang. Much like they theoretically break down completely in a singularity.
I honestly can't explain it better than that. I suggest you pick up a copy of "A Brief History of Time", which is a pretty good lay-person's book on astrophysics and quantum mechanics.
As I understand it, they can estimate how much matter there *should* be, based on what we know of the universe and of physics, and also based on the matter was can see now. They aren't just pulling the numbers out of thin air.
:)
Always remember: Weezer ain't rocket science!
Yeah, I recycled it for the same reason that /. recycled their story (they just changed the name of the MP3 player in question). Personally, I thought it was amusing that I didn't have to change a word of the post and it still fit.
Oh goody. Another over-priced MP3 player with too many bells and whistles. And a price that's way higher than it should be.
All I want is a decent MP3 player. I want one that supports some sort of smart media card, supports at least 128MB, and has USB. And most importantly, doesn't cost $400! Is that too much to ask? The Diamond Rio 500 came closest to that, but of course it's not made anymore (and cost too much anyway). Instead, SonicBlue produces the vastly inferior Rio 600 or the way over-priced 800. If I can buy a camcorder for $300, a freaking MP3 player oughta be under $100.
I don't need a built-in CD player (that's why I have MP3's fer crissakes!) I don't need a built-in hard drive. I don't need a goddamn built-in toaster oven. I just want a little MP3 player that holds more than 5 songs that I can stick in my pocket when I go for a walk. I certainly don't need to put my entire MP3 collection on it all at once.
Let's see a cheap MP3 player that does one thing exceptionally well, instead of an overpriced MP3 player that does half a dozen things poorly.
Oh goody. Another over-priced MP3 player with too many bells and whistles. And a price that's way higher than it should be.
All I want is a decent MP3. I want one that supports some sort of smart media card, supports at least 128MB, and has USB. And most importantly, doesn't cost $400! Is that too much to ask? The Diamond Rio 500 came closest to that, but of course it's not made anymore (and cost too much anyway). Instead, SonicBlue produces the vastly inferior Rio 600 or the way over-priced 800. If I can buy a camcorder for $300, a freaking MP3 player oughta be under $100.
I don't need a built-in CD player (that's why I have MP3's fer crissakes!) I don't need a built-in hard drive. I don't need a goddamn built-in toaster oven. I just want a little MP3 player that holds more than 5 songs that I can stick in my pocket when I go for a walk. I certainly don't need to put my entire MP3 collection on it all at once.
Let's see a cheap MP3 player that does one thing exceptionally well, instead of an overpriced MP3 player that does half a dozen things poorly.
WIPO Arbitrators Stern In Domain 'Hijacking' Rulings
... to set out any of the clearly lengthy background to this dispute is surprising," the panel said in a written ruling.
... avoided the full story," the panel wrote. "As a result of its rather lengthy dealings with Mr. Maggi, (Nestle) was aware that Mr. Maggi intended to use the domain name for personal use, yet (it) ignores these negotiations in the complainant and fails to even mention (Maggi's) alleged personal interest in the domain name."
By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND,
19 Oct 2001, 5:20 PM CST
A pair of companies - including Swiss food giant Nestle - have received unusually stern rebukes from international arbitrators who say the firms attempted to abuse a procedure that is supposed to sort out disputes over the ownership of Internet domain names.
In two separate decisions published this week, arbitrators refereeing disputes on behalf of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the companies that had accused others of being cybersquatters were in fact attempting to "reverse hijack" the Internet addresses in question.
Findings of reverse hijacking are relatively rare under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), even though the system for settling disputes over conflicts between trademark holder and domain-name registrants has seen more than 4,500 cases in less than two years.
But even rarer was the severity of the spanking received by Nestle at the hands of three arbitrators assigned by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Also accused of reverse hijacking - but reprimanded less harshly by another trio of WIPO arbitrators - was Boston-area software company Aspen Grove, which had attempted to claim the domain AspenGrove.com from a family in Salt Lake City.
Nestle had turned to WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center, one of four organizations accredited to resolve UDRP complaints, in a bid to evict another Swiss company, Pro Fiducia Treuhand AG, from the Internet address Maggi.com.
Nestle said the registration of Maggi.com clearly encroached on the trademark it holds for its Maggi brand of sauces and soups.
It complained that Pro Fiducia Treuhand, a financial and management consulting firm with some 40 employees, had no legitimate claim on the Maggi.com domain and that it had registered and used the address in bad faith because, after five years, the company had not made use of the domain for a Web site.
But Pro Fiducia Treuhand says there's a reason it is listed as the holder of Maggi.com: its chairman, Romeo Maggi, had provided the company contact information when he registered the domain for his personal use in 1996.
In his response to WIPO after Nestle's complaint, Maggi said he still plans to use the address to build a Web site for his family and that he had informed Nestle's lawyers of that when they contacted him in 1999. Maggi said appeals from Nestle for the domain actually led to a meeting between the two sides in Geneva a year ago.
The panel of WIPO arbitrators, led by Washington, D.C.-based international business law specialist Dennis Foster, ruled it was clear that Maggi had a legitimate interest in the Maggi.com domain. But what seemed to annoy the trio was that nowhere in Nestle's complaint did its lawyers mention the existence of the Pro Fiducia Treuhand chairman.
"The panel finds the failure of (Nestle)
Pointing out that Nestle had certified in its complaint that the information it provided was, "to the best of (its) knowledge, complete and accurate," the arbitrators wrote: "The panel does not see how that could properly have been said."
"(Nestle) has
"In fact the initial complaint misstated the registration record by failing to name Mr. Maggi as the administrative contact, an error later corrected when noted by the WIPO staff," the panel said. "Had Mr. Maggi failed to defend his position, perhaps complainant's lack of candor might have resulted in a decision in its favor."
"Having instead been exposed, that lack of candor concerning material facts, tied with the lack of legal merit to (Nestle's) position, leads us to the conclusion that this complaint was brought in bad faith and constitutes an abuse of the administrative proceeding."
In the case of the battling Aspen Groves, the workflow-software company from the east coast had complained that Michael Clark of Salt Lake City had no right to AspenGrove.com and that, as in the Maggi.com dispute, the lack of an active Web site at the address suggested a cybersquatter was at work.
Lawyers for Aspen Grove argued that, "by continuing to use the domain name without offering any or little content or any legitimate business use, (Clark) has confused (Aspen Grove's) prospective clients and business partners and has diluted the value of (its) trademark and reputation."
In a response filed on his behalf, Clark's lawyers blasted the notion that the lack of a commercial Web site constituted bad-faith use on an Internet address.
"Domain names may be owned by individuals and utilized solely for personal use," Clark's lawyers argued. "The rule advocated by (Aspen Grove) - that maintenance of a domain name without construction of a commercial Web site is tantamount to bad faith - ignores the history of the Internet and the World Wide Web, is inconsistent with the (UDRP), and is generally poor public policy."
Clark told Newsbytes that his family has used the domain - which reminded them of the aspens around their home at the time the address was registered - for personal communication, including e-mail and the sharing of family photos, for more than four years.
But the real clincher for the WIPO panel led by Mark Partridge, an intellectual property lawyer in Chicago, was that Clark had registered his domain in January of 1997 - a date which was not only before Aspen Grove applied to trademark its name, but which also pre-dated Aspen Grove's incorporation as a company.
Argued Clark's lawyers, "The complaint is based on the incredible premise that a business is ipso facto entitled to a domain name despite the fact that a private individual has registered and continuously used the domain name before the business even existed."
The WIPO arbitrators agreed, saying Aspen Grove's weak claim on a trademark and the fact that Clark's registration was two years ahead of the software company's incorporation justified a reverse-hijacking ruling.
"The panel finds the complainant, even though apparently knowledgeable and assisted by reputable counsel, nonetheless chose to file a complaint without a colorable claim and thus abused the ICANN proceeding," the arbitrators wrote.
Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com .
My dad had a setup years ago that was basically a wooden box with a lens. Inside the box, he put a 13" TV with the picture reversed and upside down (I have no idea ho he managed that). He projected it on the wall. It looked fantastic. The most expensive part was the lens.
The only real downside was that you could really only see it well if the lights were turned down (or off).
Ash vs. Duke Nukem: Who would win?
They give out blowjobs? How come I missed that in their catalog?
FP
The problem with your basic lesbian, see, is that they don't like men. Your typical male ST geek doesn't get enough action in a (predominantly) non-lesbian universe. How bad would that suck to be in one where the women are *all* lesbians?
What are those technical details? I know they sell TV sets with dual tuners for Picture in Picture that only need one cable hookup. For those of us who hook the cable right into the back of the TV(no cable box) why wouldn't this be an easy thing to? (with additional hardware of coures)
They wouldn't just have to have dual tuners. Straight dual-RF would be pretty easy. The problem is that they'd also have to deal with dual cable boxes, which means twice as much hardware. And the interface would become exponentially more complicated, as you try to explain which input is connected to which cable box, and try to configure two separate IR blasters running on the same frequencies, etc. etc.
Right now, TiVo is not being marketed to power users (which are the ones who would want dual-tuner capability). They're trying to sell it as a VCR replacement.
Your understanding is unfortunately incorrect. The stand-alone TiVo's only have a single tuner, so this software update won't do any good (although there are a few other nice toys in the update...). Also, don't expect the 2.5 update for standalones until probably Q1 of next year.
That said, there has been considerable discussion in the TiVo forums on what it would take to make a dual-tuner stand-alone TiVo, and frankly, it doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon. You'll notice that the dual-tuner boxen are all satellite-related (either DirectTV TiVo or Microsoft's UltimateTV).
FP
I fail to see how this will help. It seems to me that it will only confuse the consumer. You take the one piece of data that the average buyer uses as a benchmark (the MHz rating) and completely obscure it.
It seems to me that the consumer would be better served by AMD advertising in plain language why their chips are better than the competition's.
Look at it this way, if you went to the gas station and the pumps were only listed as "Formulas One, Two, and Three" instead of octane ratings, you'd likely buy the cheapest one instead of the one best suited to your needs.
Well, I guess that's one more place to add to the ever-growing places where I won't shop. Pretty soon I'm going to have to become a hermit and start hunting and foraging for food. There won't be any place else left for me to go. :(
FP
I didn't used to care for them much, but lately, I've been reading them on my Palm PDA a lot and I've really grown to like them.
.lit format is useless (especially on Palms), and I don't want to use a proprieatary reader to read $PUBLISHER's book.
The problem with e-books as I see it is the same as the problem with music. The publishers don't release new material in an open format.
MS's
When publishers quit trying to over-control the format, they'll make money at it. Look at Stephen King's book. He made like $500,000 off it, even though it was heavily pirated, but aside from bandwidth, there were no publishing costs.
I wish there were a better solution. Unfortunately, some of the sites I like to hit use javascript. Javascript is occasionally useful (more often than not, in fact). It seems that forsaking a technology simply because some people choose to abuse it isn't the way to go about doing things (*cough*napster*cough*).
So besides disabling Javascript, what else can we do? Is legislation a viable option? Complaining to the webmaster of the site with the evil js?
What have you tried that has worked for you?
FP
Now I am going to see Coke or Dr. Pepper (since I am in the south) while yankees will see Pepsi, and the such.
Yankees? You *do* know the war is over, right?
If only we'd see @Home put this much effort into cracking down on people who leave "File and printer sharing" turned on, or who are stupid enough to use their service without a firewall, or who run open mail relays, or who........
What is this "perl"? I looked all over Microsoft's website and I couldn't find where to download it. Must only be available to beta testers.
*duck*
They promised us jetpacks! I want my jetpack! Where the hell is my jetpack?!