If you want to send some fancy, dolled-up, formatted, tabled and/or fonted document and you simply cannot express your thoughts without such accoutrements, attach the god damned thing!
I'm certainly not saying "a terminal window and pine should be the only allowable way to view email". What I am saying is that HTML has no business being the default format for email. The use of active content as a virus delivery vector alone is reason enough.
Did you mean "CF"? And since the vast majority of these flash devices are aimed at Windows, long filenames are a given. But yeah, 0.25M$ isn't too bad... until the mfr. hikes the unit cost by $10 to cover it.
How many Compact Flash cards were sold this year? How about USB "ThumbDrives"? MMC? SmartMedia? Secure Digital cards? MemorySticks? External USB/FireWire hard drives? All of these typically come formatted with a FAT filesystem. (even my Maxtor 80GB external had some kind of FAT system... must have had gigantor cluster sizes. I didn't really look before the 'mke2fs -j') And every one of them now owes a quarter to Microsoft.
Doesn't anyone else chafe a little at the fact that you can't get the best deal from your provider without threatening them?
I switched from Sprint to T-Mobile earlier this year and was flat-out yelled at by the Sprint rep when I called to cancel. "Take that phone back!! I can beat that deal!!" And he actually did offer me a better deal than T-Mobile, but I still switched (partly because I don't like getting yelled at, and partly because T-Mobile handles email on the phone much better than Sprint).
My year is up in April, and a T-Mobile rep told me I can upgrade my phone in month 11, so I'm looking carefully. With number portability a reality now, I bet I can score a good deal on a Bluetooth camphone. (Sony-Ericsson T910 any good?)
Advertising has always relied on one simple capability: to force you to pay at least some attention to the advert. That's why billboards exist, why all the ads in newspapers and magazines aren't confined to one easily ignored section, why spammers invent ever more techniques to evade filtration, and why commercials interrupt advertising-supported television programs. If advertisers can't force their messages into your stream of cognition, they effectively don't exist.
Until recently, technology has been on the side of the advertiser, because technology has been expensive. That "natural" balance is being destroyed as tech becomes more powerful and cheaper. Advertising's traditional business model is being destroyed by Moore's Law.
This could be fun eventually. How about Virtual Light style glasses that can selectively remove the ads from your visual field?
I suggest bead blasting and then anodizing it black afterwards
For an even more interesting (and practical, from the POV of hauling it around) finish, get the aluminum Hardcote'd. Hardcote looks a lot like black ano, but hardens the surface of the aluminum to where it's fscking near indestructible. No worries about scratches and gouges from banging around on the floor of your Pinto on the way to that LAN party.
Not only does the bill not define what "clear and conspicuous identification", it forbids the FTC from clarifying that part of the law, vis:
SEC. 13. REGULATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL- The Commission may issue regulations to implement the provisions of this Act (not including the amendments made by sections 4 and 12). Any such regulations shall be issued in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code.
(b) LIMITATION- Subsection (a) may not be construed to authorize the Commission to establish a requirement pursuant to section 5(a)(5)(A) to include any specific words, characters, marks, or labels in a commercial electronic mail message, or to include the identification required by section 5(a)(5)(A) in any particular part of such a mail message (such as the subject line or body).
The can't say what qualifies as identification. They can't even say where the identifying portion must appear.
the bounty hunters (not called "blade runners" anywhere in the novel)
I can't find it on Amazon or Google, but the title "Blade Runner" actually came from a sci-fi novel about underground doctors in a totalitarian world where control of health care had been co-opted into control of the population. I remember reading it some years ago, but now I can't remember the author. I did read somewhere that the film company had bought the book's title from the author to stick it onto the movie. Maybe some other/.er can fill in the missing piece here?
God dammit.. you don't fucking read either, do you?
Guess I'll have to check back around year's end, though.
It's not my first week on Yahoo, buster. But yes, I did half-expect them to reset my prefs early, given that they've done it before.
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What's she selling? Surely not the iPod. He already has one. The music? So the RIAA says we can't share music amongst ourselves, but they can hire attractive females to go out and offer it?
Yahoo provides a free, stable, POP3 service. Their "Yahoo! Delivers" advertising emails are very easy to filter out, so it's a very effective free POP3 IMO.
/me shakes head to clear the effects of the timewarp.
You are aware that Yahoo stopped the free POP3 service a couple of years ago, right? That's a $19.95/yr premium service now. And no, they didn't grandfather anyone in, because I used to use the POP3 service all the time (with a filter to autodel the required spam). I was disappointed (but not pissed, because it was free) when they stopped it.
The preferences management page has 13 categories under which Yahoo! may send you email. I just checked, and all 13 (along with the choice for 3rd-party junk) on my account are still set to 'No'. The physical address and phone number are a bit out of date, though.;) Guess I'll have to check back around year's end, though.
Really, the only reason I even have a Yahoo! Account! is for a few mailing lists, cuz the only way to actually recieve Yahoo! mailing lists as mail is to have an account. In the past month, 4 of them have bailed over to their own servers. There are 4 more that I'd like to keep, but would like to see move off of Yahoo!. Time to start evangelizing.
By doing this they have also made it quite difficult or impossible for a vast amount of people to also create things.
It is difficult for a vast number of people to create usable computer tools as well. If it weren't, many among the/. audience would be flipping burgers and offering "fries with that". SL mimics the Real World(tm) that way. Some will aspire to build floating cities, while others will make t-shirts because if everyone were a Wizard, the environment would be pretty boring.
On the other hand, there's no Linux client, so I can't find out firsthand.
I'm one of those that doesn't want to shell out for cable. So in its place, I watch... (wait for it!) DVDs. Yep, I have a set of rabbit ears so that just in case there is a natural disaster and I need to tune in to the local station for news, I can. But otherwise, the TV stays set to S-video in and acts as the video monitor for the home theater system. DVD and VHS are the sole inputs.
Know what? I don't miss it at all. In fact, I take a little perverse pleasure during the water-cooler chats when someone mentions some series or other and asks if I saw last night's. "Eh? Never seen it. I don't watch TV." Those looks can be priceless.
if they take action against spam, they must take action against kiddie porn, warez etc.
Not necessarily. My ISP (Fuze) recently started blocking outbound port 25 connections unless directed to their SMTP server. Shortly after that, I heated up an older box I have, which used to be the house mailserver. Of course, there was some traffic stuck in its mail queue, which it tried to send. Fuze suspended my service (reported with a web page shown when I tried to go out on the web) until I called the helpdesk. They did this purely based on the appearance of the traffic, and not on the content.
The conversation with the helpdesk guy was kinda amusing, though.
HDG: "Are you familiar with a program called Zone Alarm?"
Me: "Sure. Are you familiar with the SMC Barricade router?"
Is Fedora solid to the point that I could install it on my existing RH9 box and not have everything break? Will the nVidia nvnet driver still work? I don't have the luxury of a second system that's equivalent to my main box for a staged changeover.
Or... should I just be looking at Gentoo or Debian?
Regardless what you think of flash, there are lots and lots of sites that depend on it, and they will have to be changed.
Tell me again where the downside to this is. Flash only works reliably in MS browsers. In others, it's iffy at best. If a site depends on Flash for navigation, they've lost my patronage.
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I'm certainly not saying "a terminal window and pine should be the only allowable way to view email". What I am saying is that HTML has no business being the default format for email. The use of active content as a virus delivery vector alone is reason enough.
And that's just off the top of my head. Besides, you don't say which one you have now, so we can't properly rip it to shreds.
Did you mean "CF"? And since the vast majority of these flash devices are aimed at Windows, long filenames are a given. But yeah, 0.25M$ isn't too bad... until the mfr. hikes the unit cost by $10 to cover it.
I switched from Sprint to T-Mobile earlier this year and was flat-out yelled at by the Sprint rep when I called to cancel. "Take that phone back!! I can beat that deal!!" And he actually did offer me a better deal than T-Mobile, but I still switched (partly because I don't like getting yelled at, and partly because T-Mobile handles email on the phone much better than Sprint).
My year is up in April, and a T-Mobile rep told me I can upgrade my phone in month 11, so I'm looking carefully. With number portability a reality now, I bet I can score a good deal on a Bluetooth camphone. (Sony-Ericsson T910 any good?)
Until recently, technology has been on the side of the advertiser, because technology has been expensive. That "natural" balance is being destroyed as tech becomes more powerful and cheaper. Advertising's traditional business model is being destroyed by Moore's Law.
This could be fun eventually. How about Virtual Light style glasses that can selectively remove the ads from your visual field?
This is such complete bullshit!
My brain hurts!
You are aware that Yahoo stopped the free POP3 service a couple of years ago, right? That's a $19.95/yr premium service now. And no, they didn't grandfather anyone in, because I used to use the POP3 service all the time (with a filter to autodel the required spam). I was disappointed (but not pissed, because it was free) when they stopped it.
Really, the only reason I even have a Yahoo! Account! is for a few mailing lists, cuz the only way to actually recieve Yahoo! mailing lists as mail is to have an account. In the past month, 4 of them have bailed over to their own servers. There are 4 more that I'd like to keep, but would like to see move off of Yahoo!. Time to start evangelizing.
Some of us don't do Windows, remember?
My SqueezeBox is already on order and I have a potential buyer for one of the SliMP3s to defray the cost a bit.
On the other hand, there's no Linux client, so I can't find out firsthand.
Know what? I don't miss it at all. In fact, I take a little perverse pleasure during the water-cooler chats when someone mentions some series or other and asks if I saw last night's. "Eh? Never seen it. I don't watch TV." Those looks can be priceless.
The conversation with the helpdesk guy was kinda amusing, though.
HDG: "Are you familiar with a program called Zone Alarm?"
Me: "Sure. Are you familiar with the SMC Barricade router?"
Or... should I just be looking at Gentoo or Debian?
Tell me again where the downside to this is. Flash only works reliably in MS browsers. In others, it's iffy at best. If a site depends on Flash for navigation, they've lost my patronage.
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