Yahoooooooo, are you listening ?
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Yahoo's Geek Statue
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· Score: 5, Interesting
...because I have a couple of ways in which you could really, really improve your service. I might even consider switching back to you.
1. insane captcha when SENDING mails. There shouldn't be any captcha for sending emails, especially when I have the account for 5 years or so and I sent like 233 mails in total. But no, what if I'm spammer ? You know, when I click "send" I expect to be able to just walk away (and one time I did !) but the mail hasn't been sent because of this crazy captcha. AND I have to admit I failed the captcha at least two times. There's no IQ test, just that you have more than one option to "read" the damn thing.
2. crazy spam filter. I'm getting mail from people who use ONLY the web interface and send like 2 emails/month and it's marked as spam. Is it that hard to flag the mail sent internally as NOT-SPAM (that is if the sender is not reaching a threshold of emails/day/hour/whatever) ?
3. crazy, moving ads (sometimes offensive or sexual). Slashdot is getting there too
4. I understand I have to click thru' as much as possible to get more money in displayed ads but the emails are in yahoo "one click too far" compared to Google
5. please don't silently change my outgoing emails: don't change "medieval" to "medireview" for my own protection, don't add ads (or at least let me see the ads before), etc
6. lack of features (free features, that is): google has pop3, forwarding, 2+G and the ability to send email from any address (as long as you can receive email on that address).
What if I don't have Internet in the first place ? I boght the damn CD just so I don't have to play with shady software; if I'm willing to do that I can just take it from the p2p of the day.
And after all I want to remove the damn crapware because I don't trust Sony in the first place. Now they want to run MORE crap AND to have my computer connected to their servers.
What they should do is to pick up the bill I'll have from cleaning up (or reinstall) my system by somebody *I* trust.
They're been doing this redirection for a long time now, the reason is that they can give you a "google.com" cookie and track you accross services (for better or worse).
I got the text but it's encrypted:-) See for yourself:
Piratbyrån demonstrerade i tre städer Inlagd: 2004-05-02 00:49 I tre städer demonstrerade idag anhängare till Piratbyrån under paroller som "Välfärdssamhället börjar vid 100 Mbit" och "Avskaffa upphovsrätten". I Stockholm demonstrerade närmare 200 personer, i Umeå ett hundratal och i Malmö ett tappert halvdussin. Deltagarna skanderade nypåkomna slagord som "Use the force - Open Source" och "Vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha 600 Mbit", och bar på hemgjorda banderoller med pirat- eller fildelningstema. I Stockholm genomfördes också historiens första Copyswap, där de som hade med sig egenbrända skivor med film eller musik delade med sig till sina nyfunna vänner. I Umeå delades det ut pris till demonstrationens bäst utklädde pirat, en alldeles äkta hårddisk.
Både i Stockholm och Umeå fokuserade talen på den nyligen avslutade kampanjen "Stoppa Fluktarna", som syftar till att sätta press på internetleverantörerna att inte acceptera branschorganisationernas maffiametoder när de bland annat spionerar på internetanvändare för att sedemera kunna anmäla dem till deras leverantörer.
I Umeå tågade demonstrationen förbi tre stora internetleverantörer som har kontor i staden, och i Stockholm var slutdestinationen Datainspektionen där 23.000 namnunderskrifter lämnades in - brända på CD-Rom. Datainspektionen ansåg sig inte ha tid för Piratbyrån, så listan lämnades i deras postfack.
Piratbyrån vill tacka alla som anslöt sig till demonstrationerna idag. Vi visade att vi faktiskt finns på riktigt, och att vi är en kraft att räkna med. Tills nästa arrangemang - fortsätt piratkopiera!
It is a reason to have the same meaning for every kilosomething. If you accept bytes as special case you should accept *** a lot *** of special cases:
kilo mega giga tera pentabytes... bytes/s bytes/m^2 bytes/kg bytes*m... and any combination like kbytes/kg, milibytes/kg (why not), etc, etc
And how about mili/micro/nano/pico something ? There is no good reason for milibyte, but you could have micro byte*some unit. Which one is the exception and which one is the rule ?
Oh, and we have other arithmetic contradictions as well:
1kVA=1kAV but 1 kbyte*unit != 1 kunit*byte
it gets even worse: how big is 1 kunit*byte ?
is it 1 k (unit*byte) = 1024 unit*byte or 1 (kunit) * byte = 1000 unit*byte ?
If you want contradictions by using both 1000 and 1024 "kilos" just run units:
[root@foo redhat]# units 2112 units, 59 prefixes
You have: 1 kbyte You want: byte
* 1024
/ 0.0009765625 You have: 1 Mbyte You want: byte
* 1000000
/ 1e-06 You have: 1 Mbyte You want: kbyte
* 976.5625
/ 0.001024 You have: 1 Gbyte You want: byte
* 1e+09
/ 1e-09
It's the same in Germany. I call this TV/radio license thing THEFT. And now it's the best part, let's say you have a TV, you pay the licence. HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED for example "Seinfeld" in GERMAN ?!?!
So... let's see: you can fit 100 DVDs (that's 470 G, maybe more double sided) inside a
0.12 m x 0.12 m x 0.15 m space. Let's say your strip is 4m wide and the height for the pile of DVDs is 3 m. We have (3.055m/s=11 km/h):
(3.055*4*3*470)/(0.12*0.12*0.15) Gbyte/s
7.98 * 10^6 Gbyte / s !!!
The problem is for distances _under_ 1 km ?!
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High Speed Travelator
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---- "The real problem nowadays is how to move crowds; they can travel fast over long distances with the TGV (high-speed train) or airplanes, but not over short distances (under 1km)," he says. ---
For about 8 years there was DHCP support in *doze; *BSD and linux had support since I don't remember when. What's next, TCP/IP stack for openbsd ? Support for 486's in linux kernel ? How to use more than 640k ram in MS operating systems ?
Yes, this is the catch ! You could reach your cap in one day (download + upload) using NORMAL dial-up. However, the unlimited plan is 5500 RS = 106 USD. And remember, 100 USD monthly in India ~ 3-4000 USD monthly in USA.
By the way, this is like "high speed DSL" in Germany (Arcor & Deutsche Telekom). 1500 kbit with 2 G cap !
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...because I have a couple of ways in which you could really, really improve your service. I might even consider switching back to you.
1. insane captcha when SENDING mails. There shouldn't be any captcha for sending emails, especially when I have the account for 5 years or so and I sent like 233 mails in total. But no, what if I'm spammer ? You know, when I click "send" I expect to be able to just walk away (and one time I did !) but the mail hasn't been sent because of this crazy captcha. AND I have to admit I failed the captcha at least two times. There's no IQ test, just that you have more than one option to "read" the damn thing.
2. crazy spam filter. I'm getting mail from people who use ONLY the web interface and send like 2 emails/month and it's marked as spam. Is it that hard to flag the mail sent internally as NOT-SPAM (that is if the sender is not reaching a threshold of emails/day/hour/whatever) ?
3. crazy, moving ads (sometimes offensive or sexual). Slashdot is getting there too
4. I understand I have to click thru' as much as possible to get more money in displayed ads but the emails are in yahoo "one click too far" compared to Google
5. please don't silently change my outgoing emails: don't change "medieval" to "medireview" for my own protection, don't add ads (or at least let me see the ads before), etc
6. lack of features (free features, that is): google has pop3, forwarding, 2+G and the ability to send email from any address (as long as you can receive email on that address).
What if I don't have Internet in the first place ? I boght the damn CD just so I don't have to play with shady software; if I'm willing to do that I can just take it from the p2p of the day.
And after all I want to remove the damn crapware because I don't trust Sony in the first place. Now they want to run MORE crap AND to have my computer connected to their servers.
What they should do is to pick up the bill I'll have from cleaning up (or reinstall) my system by somebody *I* trust.
They're been doing this redirection for a long time now, the reason is that they can give you a "google.com" cookie and track you accross services (for better or worse).
... is just what you're looking for. I strongly recommend encryption and backups though.
I got the text but it's encrypted :-) See for yourself:
Piratbyrån demonstrerade i tre städer
Inlagd: 2004-05-02 00:49
I tre städer demonstrerade idag anhängare till Piratbyrån under paroller som "Välfärdssamhället börjar vid 100 Mbit" och "Avskaffa upphovsrätten". I Stockholm demonstrerade närmare 200 personer, i Umeå ett hundratal och i Malmö ett tappert halvdussin.
Deltagarna skanderade nypåkomna slagord som "Use the force - Open Source" och "Vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha sex, vi vill ha 600 Mbit", och bar på hemgjorda banderoller med pirat- eller fildelningstema. I Stockholm genomfördes också historiens första Copyswap, där de som hade med sig egenbrända skivor med film eller musik delade med sig till sina nyfunna vänner. I Umeå delades det ut pris till demonstrationens bäst utklädde pirat, en alldeles äkta hårddisk.
Både i Stockholm och Umeå fokuserade talen på den nyligen avslutade kampanjen "Stoppa Fluktarna", som syftar till att sätta press på internetleverantörerna att inte acceptera branschorganisationernas maffiametoder när de bland annat spionerar på internetanvändare för att sedemera kunna anmäla dem till deras leverantörer.
I Umeå tågade demonstrationen förbi tre stora internetleverantörer som har kontor i staden, och i Stockholm var slutdestinationen Datainspektionen där 23.000 namnunderskrifter lämnades in - brända på CD-Rom. Datainspektionen ansåg sig inte ha tid för Piratbyrån, så listan lämnades i deras postfack.
Piratbyrån vill tacka alla som anslöt sig till demonstrationerna idag. Vi visade att vi faktiskt finns på riktigt, och att vi är en kraft att räkna med. Tills nästa arrangemang - fortsätt piratkopiera!
Ok, at least we have an excuse for not RTFA.
Here is the cached page if we ./ google:
J :w ww.google.com/+google&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
...
http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4
Wait
Ok, but where's the Moon ?
"For our source material, we turned to DVD movies"
I can imagine the SWAT teams breaking inside extremetech's office: "FREEZEEEE, where's the illegal copy protection circumventing device ?"
It is a reason to have the same meaning for every kilosomething. If you accept bytes as special case you should accept *** a lot *** of special cases:
... ...
kilo mega giga tera pentabytes
bytes/s bytes/m^2 bytes/kg bytes*m
and any combination like kbytes/kg, milibytes/kg (why not), etc, etc
And how about mili/micro/nano/pico something ? There is no good reason for milibyte, but you could have micro byte*some unit. Which one is the exception and which one is the rule ?
Oh, and we have other arithmetic contradictions as well:
1kVA=1kAV but 1 kbyte*unit != 1 kunit*byte
it gets even worse: how big is 1 kunit*byte ?
is it 1 k (unit*byte) = 1024 unit*byte
or 1 (kunit) * byte = 1000 unit*byte ?
If you want contradictions by using both 1000 and 1024 "kilos" just run units:
[root@foo redhat]# units
2112 units, 59 prefixes
You have: 1 kbyte
You want: byte
* 1024
/ 0.0009765625
You have: 1 Mbyte
You want: byte
* 1000000
/ 1e-06
You have: 1 Mbyte
You want: kbyte
* 976.5625
/ 0.001024
You have: 1 Gbyte
You want: byte
* 1e+09
/ 1e-09
Oh, ye - so you want:
1 kg = 1024 g
1 metric kg = 1000 g
1 km = 1024 m
1 metric km = 1000 m
Thanks, but no thanks.
Not exactly. You have to switch between mp3+wma and mp3+ogg.
Actually the exact difference would be:
340282366841710300949110269838224261120
There are 12 exhibits, they're even numbered if you can't count to 12 ...
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"There's only about 15 at the moment, but he's collecting further examples."
---
It's the same in Germany. I call this TV/radio license thing THEFT.
And now it's the best part, let's say you have a TV, you pay the licence. HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED for example "Seinfeld" in GERMAN ?!?!
I have a quantum BIGfoot 5 1/2''
But I've got it ! Very slow uplink, but better than nothing.
http://but.sytes.net:6882/metainfo.torrent
Oh, and sorry - I don't know how many LOC or WV bugs is this.
Actually: "Top speed: 11 km/h". How about a bigger tunnel/sidewalk ?
So ... let's see: you can fit 100 DVDs (that's 470 G, maybe more double sided) inside a
0.12 m x 0.12 m x 0.15 m space.
Let's say your strip is 4m wide and the height for the pile of DVDs is 3 m.
We have (3.055m/s=11 km/h):
(3.055*4*3*470)/(0.12*0.12*0.15) Gbyte/s
7.98 * 10^6 Gbyte / s !!!
----
"The real problem nowadays is how to move crowds; they can travel fast over long distances with the TGV (high-speed train) or airplanes, but not over short distances (under 1km)," he says.
---
How about good ol' walking ?!
The question would be: how many people ARE in Australia.
For about 8 years there was DHCP support in *doze; *BSD and linux had support since I don't remember when. What's next, TCP/IP stack for openbsd ? Support for 486's in linux kernel ? How to use more than 640k ram in MS operating systems ?
Yes, this is the catch ! You could reach your cap in one day (download + upload) using NORMAL dial-up. However, the unlimited plan is 5500 RS = 106 USD. And remember, 100 USD monthly in India ~ 3-4000 USD monthly in USA.
By the way, this is like "high speed DSL" in Germany (Arcor & Deutsche Telekom). 1500 kbit with 2 G cap !
What ? No WV bug comparison ?